Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, United States Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar
July 29th.1918.
My dear Nibs,
Your letter of July 16th, enclosing a copy of the report of the Wireless Telegraph Conference at Corfu just received,1 and will be passed on to the gang that understand about such things.
The whole subject of wireless telegraphy is more or less of a mystery to me, and I propose to let it remain so. Sweet2 has just arrived here in connection with the installation of the biggest wireless station whatever in France. They expect to have it in operation by October, but I have my doubts. He told me that they would be able to send through five messages at a time, and a hundred words per minute of each message. They say the capacity can easily be doubled after a bit of experience which would make a thousand words per minute. You can search me! This ought to be enough to provide for all of the activities of the Navy in European Waters. This makes a total of 144,000 words a day. How many will you want for your share?
With reference to your remarks about the invitation of General Layuty3 to visit Morocco. It is more or less of a mystery to me why anybody should ever want to visit Morocco for any purpose whatever.
It is still more of a mystery why our Consul General in Morocco4 expects me to send an agent to look into the situation. It never occurred to me at all that there was any situation in Morocco. Even if there was one I do not quite see why it would come within the scope of our naval activities. Doubtless this is ignorance on my part, but I cannot expect to have anything else except ignorance of Morocco when it has never been mentioned to me before. However, I am not allowing this to worry me in the slightest.
With regard to the various opinions about kite balloons being carried by convoy escorts, I can assure you that the practice in this respect is not based in the least upon opinions. It is a little bit dangerous to reason about such things. It is safer to go by the results of experience.
Not long ago a chap submitted an analysis to show that a kite balloon was absolutely of no use in escorting work. His tabulation showed that a certain number of submarines had been sunk by destroyers, patrol boats, motor boats, aeroplanes, and so forth and so forth, whereas kite balloons had been towed a certain number of thousands of miles and they never destroyed a submarine yet.
His attention was invited to the fact that there is no case on record yet where a convoy escorted by a force carrying a kite balloon has ever been attacked by a submarine. It is quite true, as you say that the kite balloon advertises the presence of the convoy. It is also true that it advertises the presence of the kite balloon and experience has shown that submarines dislike the kite balloon exceedingly. There are records of observers in the balloon seeing a submarine a distance of 25 miles. There are also records of the observer seeing a submerged submarine at a considerable distance when the submarine is wholly invisible to the observers on vessels. Of course, if these are true you will see that the slowness of the convoy has is nothing to do with the case. Quite the contrary. The slower a convoy the more likely the convoy to be attacked and therefore greater the necessity for the kite balloon to keep the attack away.
With reference to your personal letter of the same date,5 I have not heard anything at all about a “shake up” in the Mediterranean. Ther has been some discussion of establishing a strategic generalissimo in the Mediterranean to handle the forces of the various powers there in case this should become necessary, for example, in case the Germans fit up the Russian Black Sea ships and bring them out. It is not true that this was offered toanddeclined by Jellicoe. Negotiations have been carried out with a view to appointing Jellicoe Admiralissimo but so far these have not amounted to anything.6 It would not involve our forces in the slightest degree, as far as I can see at present.
Very sincerely yours,
(W.S. Sims)
Source Note: LT, DLC-MSS, William Sims Papers, box 76. Following the close, the letter is addressed, “Rear Admiral A.P.Niblack, U.S.N./ U.S.Patrol Squadron./Gibraltar.”
Footnote 1: See: Niblack to Sims, 16 July 1918.
Footnote 2: Cmdr. George C. Sweet.
Footnote 3: Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey.
Footnote 4: Maxwell Blake.
Footnote 5: See: Niblack to Sims, 16 July 1918.
Footnote 6: Adm. Sir John R. Jellicoe, former First Sea Lord. The Allies had attempted, more than once, to get Jellicoe appointed at “Generalissimo” of the Mediterranean forces, in hopes of creating greater cooperation among the various naval forces operating there. In the late summer of 1918, they made one final attempt, which was again unsuccessful. Halpern, Naval War in the Mediterranean: 522-534.
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- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/1/1918
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- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Squadron based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating Forces, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sim, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Water, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/1/1918
- Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to President Woodrow Wilson, 7/1/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, 7/1/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, 7/2/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/2/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/2/1918
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- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/2/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in France, 7/2/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/2/1918
- Captain Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy, Captain (D) Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet, to Commodore Hugh Justin Tweedie, Commodore (F), Grand Fleet Flotillas, 7/3/1918
- Second Lieutenant Raymond L. Jack, United States Coast Guard Cutter Seneca, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, 7/3/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in France, 7/3/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 7/3/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 7/4/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/4/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to the United States Navy, 7/4/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 7/4/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 7/5/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 7/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/5/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/5/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/5/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, 7/5/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/5/1918
- Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/6/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 7/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 7/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Ordnance, 7/6/1918
- United States Shipping Board to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/6/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/6/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Various Organizations Considering Submarine and Anti-Submarine Devices and Plans, 7/6/1918
- Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, Commander, United States Asiatic Fleet, 7/6/1918
- Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/6/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/7/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Commandants of Naval Districts, 7/7/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Louis C. Farley, Commander, U. S. S Allen, Memorandum on Anti-Submarine and Depth Charge Doctrine, 7/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Ordnance, 7/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/9/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/9/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/9/1918
- Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Allied Naval Council J. F. Henderson, 7/10/1918
- Bureau of Ordnance, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, 7/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 7/10/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/10/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 7/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/11/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Routing Officers, 7/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to the Bureau of Navigation, 7/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 7/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/11/1918
- Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/11/1918
- Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Lieutenant Colonel James C. Breckinridge, U.S.M.C., Naval Attaché at Stockholm, 7/11/1918
- Captain David W. Todd, Director, Naval Communications to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 7/12/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/12/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, and Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee in New York, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/12/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/12/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/12/1918
- Office of Naval Intelligence to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/13/1918
- Captain Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based at Plymouth, to Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Commander, United States Submarine Chaser Base, New London, Connecticut, 7/13/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas, 7/13/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to the Bureau of Navigation, 7/13/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to President Woodrow Wilson, 7/13/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, United States Mine Force, 7/13/1918
- Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, U.S.A., Chief of Embarkation, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 7/13/1918
- Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/14/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/14/1918
- American Patrol Detachment - Anti-Submarine Doctrine, 7/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, 7/14/1918
- Captain David W. Todd, Director, Naval Communications to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/15/1918
- Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/15/1918
- Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U. S. Destroyer Little, 7/15/1918
- Commodore William A. Howard Kelly, Commander, British Adriatic Force, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/15/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 7/15/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, 7/15/1918
- Rear Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, British Admiralty, to Vice Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Stations, 7/15/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Staff of Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, 7/15/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Certain Commands in European Waters, 7/15/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/15/1918
- Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to the Office of Naval Intelligence, 7/16/1918
- Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Naval Attaché in Paris and United States Naval Staff Representative, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/16/1918
- Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/16/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/16/1918
- Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/16/1918
- Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee in New York, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/16/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Major General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, 7/16/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol forces based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second letter of the day, 7/16/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/17/1918
- Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Base at Plymouth, England, 7/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, 7/17/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/7/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/17/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas, 7/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/17/1918
- Lieutenant Colonel James C. Breckinridge, U.S. Marine Corps, Naval Attaché at Stockholm, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/17/1918
- Plan to Prevent a Submarine Raid, 7/18/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Naval District Commandants and Various Other Officers, 7/18/1918
- Frank Munson, President, Munson Steamship Line, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/18/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/18/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/18/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 7/18/1918
- Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Naval Attaché in Paris and Staff Representative for Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/18/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/18/1918
- Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/18/1918
- Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster General, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/18/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Charles Nelson, Commander, Submarine Chaser Squadron, Corfu, 7/19/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/19/1918
- Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/19/1918
- Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, United States Mine Force, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/19/1918
- Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee in New York, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/19/1918
- Captain Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Base at Plymouth, England, to Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/20/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet, and Naval District Commandants, 7/18/1918
- Lieutenant Colonel James C. Breckinridge, United States Marine Corps, Naval Attaché in Stockholm, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/20/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigation, 7/20/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 7/20/1918
- Diary of Commander, Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Little, 7/21/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/21/1918
- Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/21/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Certain Naval District Commandants and Other Officers, 7/21/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 7/22/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Ordnance, 7/22/1918
- Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster General, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/22/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas, 7/22/1918
- Commander Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Base at Plymouth, England, to Captain Richard H. Leigh, Staff of Force Commander, Operations Section, Anti-Submarine Division, 7/22/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 7/22/1918
- Bureau of Navigation to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/23/1918
- Lieutenant Commander John A. Gade, American Legation, Copenhagen, Denmark, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 7/23/1918
- Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Little, 7/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, 7/23/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/23/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Squadron based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/23/1918
- Lieutenant Joseph L. Day to Captain Charles P. Nelson, Commander, U.S. Base, Corfu, Greece, 7/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/23/1918
- Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/23/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/23/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, 7/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Charles R. Train United States Naval Attaché at Rome, 7/24/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Edward E. Spafford, U.S.N.R.F., Commander, Hunt 10, to Commander Charles P. Nelson, Commander, Otranto Detachment, Submarine Chasers, Distant Service, 7/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/24/1918
- Commander Charles P. Nelson, Commander, Otranto Detachment, Submarine Chasers, Distant Service, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/24/1918
- Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee in New York, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, 7/24/1918
- Bureau of Navigation to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Operations in European Waters, third cable of the day, 7/24/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/24/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/24/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/24/1918
- Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United Stations Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, to Commanders, United States Naval Air Stations in Europe, 7/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Reginald R. Belknap, Commander, Mine Squadron One, 7/25/1918
- Captain David W. Todd, Director, Naval Communications, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/25/1918
- Bureau of Ordnance to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/25/1918
- Bureau of Navigation to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/25/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral Marbury Johnston, Commander, Squadron Two, Cruiser Force, 7/25/1918
- Captain Charles P.R. Coode, R.N., Director, Operations Division (Foreign), to Vice Admiral Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, 7/25/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 7/25/1918
- Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/25/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/25/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Thaddeus A. Thomson, Jr., Staff of Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/26/1918
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/26/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/26/1918
- CONVOY FOR RETURNING TRANSPORTS, 7/26/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Vice Admiral William S. Sim, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Captain Montgomery M. Taylor, Aide to the Chief of Naval Operations, to Colonel Chauncey B. Baker, U.S.A., Chief of Embarkation Service, 7/27/1918
- Planning Division, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Memorandum on Anti-Submarine Operations in the North Sea, 7/27/1918
- Vice Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, North Atlantic and West Indies Station, to British Admiralty, 7/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commodore William A. H. Kelly, R.N., Commander, British Adriatic Forces, 7/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle, R.N., Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, 7/27/1918
- Diary of Captain Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Little, 7/27/1918
- Captain Frank D. Berrien to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Captain Walter S. Crosley, United States Naval Attaché in Madrid, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Colonel N. T. Grant, Jr., Secretary, American Section, Supreme War Council, to Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative, Paris, 7/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/27/1918
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/27/1918
- Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/28/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 7/28/1918
- Captain Reginald R. Belknap, Commander, Mine Squadron One, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/28/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 7/28/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces in European Waters, to Rear Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 7/28/1918
- Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United Stations Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/29/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 7/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, 7/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Construction and Repair, and Bureau of Navigation, 7/30/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Cruiser Force and Transport Force, 7/30/1918
- Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based at Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/30/1918
- Captain Richard H. Leigh, Anti-Submarine Operations Section, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/30/1918
- Plan for Protecting Against Raiders, 7/30/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 7/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/30/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Edward E. Spafford, U.S.N.R.F., to Captain Frank H. Schofield, Planning Section, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, 7/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 7/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 7/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Ordnance, 7/31/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 7/31/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 7/31/1918
- Captain William V. Pratt, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, to Bureaus of Navigation, Ordinance, Construction & Repair, Steam Engineering, Commandants of Naval Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8, and Clifford Mallory, Director of Operations, U.S. Shipping Board, 7/31/1918
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