Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas
September 16th 1918.
My dear Pringle:
Your letter of the 14th1 has just been received and I understand your position entirely. But I quite agree with you that if you should go home on liason duty, Price2 should remain at least until you come back. I do not see why Price’s remaining where he is making such a splendid record, which will permit me to give him a report of fitness of the finest kind, should be any detriment to him. The proposition that he should go to a sea-going ship for his benefit is not a sound one. There is a great European war going on and it is up to us to push it along in the best possible way. If it would decrease the efficiency of our forces to detach Price and put an unknown man in his place, it should not be done. There is are a great many men in Price’s position. I might cite Twining and other members of my staff, also Captain Pratt3 and such men who are doing excellent work. According to Admiral Mayo,4 it would be beneficial to Pratt personally to go to a sea-going ship and hold down a job which any ordinary naval officer of commerce could hold down but it would be a very decided decrease in the efficiency of Admiral Benson’s5 staff to send him to sea.
As for your going home on liaison trip, that appeals to me in certain ways. There can be no doubt at all that it would be very beneficial to us to have you spend three weeks in Washington wrestling out things with the gang there. But the only thing that I am afraid of is that the principal dignitaries may take advantage of your absence to order a Rear Admiral to the command.6 Of course the fiction is that I am in command of the destroyers and other vessels based at Queenstown but everybody knows that this is not the exercise of an active demonstration command.
While the liaison principle is of course entirely sound, I have my doubts about the advisability of a man practically in chief administrative command of a base being absent for any considerable length of time. I will let you know about this later-after I hear what Admiral Mayo has to say, and what his attitude is toward you and toward everything remaining in Queenstown as it is now. Last time he was here he made a very strenuous effort to have the Queenstown force placed under a Rear Admiral. He may have changed his opinion, or changed his policy due to the demonstration of the last year or so as to how things have been going.
I have not yet received the note from Admiral Bayly.7 I received a letter from him dated the 12th,8 in which he strongly recommended that we sent thirty six more destroyers to Queenstown with a mother ship to render the forces more mobile. I have written him on this subject indicating that there is not much chance of our having thirty six more chasers to send there.9 We are still forty two chasers short of the hundred and forty four promised. I have still asked for fifty more.
We have no word yet about your examination papers.10
Very sincerely yours,
Source Note: Cy, DLC-MSS, William Sims Papers, Container 79. The identifier “Admiral Sims’ personal files.” appears in the top-left corner of the first page, and the identification number “1/3/J/D” appears in the top-right corner of both pages. Letter is addressed below close: “Captain J.R.P.Pringle, U.S.N./U.S.S.Melville.”
Footnote 1: This letter has not been found.
Footnote 2: Capt. Henry B. Price, Commander, Dixie. Price’s ship served as the tender for the entire Queenstown flotilla.
Footnote 3: Capt. William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, and Capt. Nathan C. Twining, Sims’ chief of staff.
Footnote 4: Adm. Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet.
Footnote 5: Adm. William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations.
Footnote 6: For more on Pringle’s proposed liaison trip and concerns that he return to Ireland in a timely fashion, see: Sims to Benson, 17 September 1918; and Sims to Benson, 18 September 1918.
Footnote 7: Adm. Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Southern Ireland.
Footnote 8: See: Bayly to Sims, 12 September 1918.
Footnote 9: The reference to destroyers is a mistype. Sims is talking about chasers. For more on this, see: Sims to Bayly, 15 September 1918.
Footnote 10: Pringle was apparently being considered for promotion.
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- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, 9/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to American Newspaper Editors, 9/1/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/1/1918
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- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of Naval Intelligence, 9/1/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/1/1918
- War Diary for U.S. Destroyer Aylwin, 9/1/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Report, 9/1/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Circular Letter No. 87, 9/2/1918
- First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, 9/2/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas, to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, and Mark L. Requa, General Director, Oil Division, U.S. Fuel Administration, 9/2/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Commander, U.S. Battleship Oklahoma, 9/2/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, U.S. Naval Base 27, Plymouth, England, 9/2/1918
- 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, 9/3/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/3/1918
- Mark L. Requa, Director of Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration to Chester Naramore, Chief Petroleum Technologist, Bureau of Mines, and Representative, Inter-Allied Petroleum Conference, 9/3/1918
- Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/3/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/3/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/3/1918
- 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, 9/3/1918
- Secretary of the Admiralty Sir Oswyn A. R. Murray, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/3/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of Naval Intelligence, 9/3/1918
- Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative in Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/4/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/4/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board and Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee in New York, 9/4/1918
- Captain William V. Pratt, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, to U.S. Railroad Administration, 9/4/1918
- Lords of the Admiralty to Admiral Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, 9/4/1918
- Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/4/1918
- Intelligence Section, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters, Information Bulletin, 9/4/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, and Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based at Gibraltar, 9/4/1918
- 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, 9/4/1918
- The Naval and Military Record, Lessons of the Naval War, 9/4/1918
- Ensign William H. Perot, Commander, Submarine Chaser. 325, to Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Commander, Submarine Chaser Detachment 3, 9/5/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/5/1918
- Rear Admiral Thomas S. Rodgers, Commander, Battleship Division Six, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/5/1918
- Captain Samuel S. Robison, Commander, Submarine Force, to All Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/5/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/5/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to British Admiralty, 9/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, second cable of the day, 9/5/1918
- Captain Hutchison I. Cone, Aide-de-Camp for Aviation, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/5/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/5/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Various Bureaus and Fleet & Force Commanders, 9/5/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to American Newspaper Editors, 9/6/1918
- Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/6/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Forces Based in France, 9/6/1918
- Press Release by Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, first cable of the day, 9/7/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Base at Plymouth, England, 9/7/1918
- Carey W. Cook, Acting Director of Operations, United States Shipping Board, to W. M. Williams, Agent, United States Shipping Board, 9/7/1918
- Surgeon General of the Navy William C. Braisted to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/7/1918
- Commander Walter A. Smead to Rear Admiral Robert S. Griffin, Chief, Bureau of Steam Engineering, 9/7/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, 9/7/1918
- Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/7/1918
- Herbert Hoover, Director, United States Food Administration, to Joseph P. Cotton, United States Staff Expert, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 9/7/1918
- Bureau of Ordnance to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/7/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/8/1918
- Rear Admiral Henry M. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Rear Admiral Henry M. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, fifth cable of the day, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, seventh cable of the day, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, third cable of the day, 9/8/1918
- Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, R.N., Commander, North America and West Indies Station, to Rear Admiral Alexander Duff, R.N., Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/8/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 9/9/1918
- Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/9/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/9/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/9/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/9/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Cruiser Force Commander; Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, Cruiser Division Four; Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 9/9/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/9/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, first cable of the day, 9/9/1918
- 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, 9/10/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/10/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/10/1918
- George R. Gordon, Tonnage Committee, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shipping Control Committee, New York, 9/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/10/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, 9/11/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Battleship Division Nine, 9/11/1918
- Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant (Acting) Chief of Naval Operations, to J. O. Heyworth, Manager, Division Wood Composite Ship Construction, 9/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigation, 9/11/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Guy E. Davis, Commander, Submarine Division Seven, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/11/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigations, 9/11/1918
- Edwin Reed, Aide for Information, 9th, 10, and 11th Naval Districts, to Captain Roger Welles, Director of Naval Intelligence, 9/12/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/12/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Bureau of Navigation, 9/12/1918
- Samuel Colcord to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/12/1918
- Captain William V. Pratt, Acting Chief of Naval Operations, to Mark L. Requa, Director, Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, 9/12/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/12/1918
- Press Release by the Committee on Public Information, 9/12/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/12/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/12/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Various Commanders of Naval Districts and Flag Officers, 9/12/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Secretary of State Robert M. Lansing and Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 9/10/1918
- Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/12/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council and Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board to George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, 9/12/1918
- Lieutenant (j.g.) Harold S. Vanderbilt, Submarine Chaser No. 271, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1918
- Captain Reginald R. Belknap, Commander, Mine Squadron One and Chief of Staff, Mine Force, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/13/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1918
- Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, to the Bureau of Ordnance, 9/13/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Office of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1918
- Mark L. Requa, Director, Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, to Chester Naramore, Chief Petroleum Technologist, Bureau of Mines and Representative to the Inter-Allied Petroleum Conference, 9/13/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/14/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/14/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, 9/14/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 9/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Navigation, 9/14/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division; Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council; and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 9/14/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/14/1918
- Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative in Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/14/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Southern Ireland, 9/15/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Sixth Battleship Squadron, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/15/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/15/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Commandants of First to Eighth Naval Districts, 9/15/1918
- Commander Alfred G. Howe, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Conner, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 9/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, second cable of the day, 9/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigation, 9/16/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Office of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/16/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/16/1918
- Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, Commander, North America and West Indies Station, to Secretary of the Admiralty Oswyn A. R. Murray, 9/16/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Contre-Amiral Jean-Etienne Ratyé, French Delegate to the Malta Commission, 9/17/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Certain Naval District Commandants and Other Officers, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Forces Based at Gibraltar, 9/17/1918
- Conclusions of a Conference between Representatives from the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, and Representatives from the British Admiralty Concerning Joint Naval Air Efforts of the United States and Great Britain during 1919, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, second cable of the day, 9/17/1918
- Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Bureau of Ordnance, 9/17/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, third cable of the day, 9/17/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Office of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/17/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, second cable of the day, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/17/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/17/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council and Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, to George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, 9/17/1918
- Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/17/1918
- Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/17/1918
- Captain Frank D. Berrien to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/17/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, first cable of the day, 9/17/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/17-18/1918
- Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/18/1918
- United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands John W. Garrett to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, 9/18/1918
- Charles Day, Liaison for United States Shipping Board to Department of War, to Edward N Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 9/18/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Edward N Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 9/18/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Forces Based in France, 9/18/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/18/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/18/1918
- Vice Admiral Sir Cecil F. Thursby, R.N. Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, 9/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Commander, Submarine Chaser Detachment, Plymouth, 9/19/1918
- Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Recruiting Officers, 9/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigation, 9/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/19/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Admiralty Oswyn A.R. Murray, 9/19/1918
- Memorandum from the First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes, 9/19/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/19/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 9/20/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/19/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Office of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/20/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/20/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Southern Ireland, 9/21/1918
- Surgeon General of the Navy William C. Braisted to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/21/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Wilson Brown Jr., Commander, U.S. Destroyer Parker, 9/21/1918
- Bureau of Ordnance to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/21/1918
- Captain John Halligan, Jr., Chief of Staff, on behalf of Vice Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to All Ships in the Command, 9/22/1918
- 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, 9/22/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Squadron Based on Gibraltar, 9/22/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Mark L. Requa, Director of Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, and Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, 9/23/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/23/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/23/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/23/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/23/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Commandants of Third, Fourth, Fifth Naval Districts, and Lieutenant Commander Warren C. Nixon, Commander in Chief, U.S.S. PATTERSON, 9/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 9/23/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Southern Ireland, 9/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Sir Cecil F. Thursby, Commander-in-Chief, Devonport, 9/24/1918
- Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/24/1918
- 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, 9/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Thomas S. Rodgers, Commander, Battleship Division Six, Atlantic Fleet, 9/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, 9/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in Europe, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, first cable of the day, 9/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/25/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/25/1918
- Intelligence Section, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Information Bulletin Number 219, 9/25/1918
- Commander Paul Foley and L. I. Thomas to Mark L. Requa, Director of Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, 9/25/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 9/25/1918
- Rear Admiral Sir W. Reginald Hall, R.N., Naval Intelligence Division, British Admiralty, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/25/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, first cable of the day, 9/25/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/25/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, third cable of the day, 9/25/1918
- Communications Division, Navy Department, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/25/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Edward N Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman, Shipping Control Committee, New York, and John Howland, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 9/26/1918
- Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, and George Rublee, United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, to Edward N Hurley, Chairman United States Shipping Board, 9/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in Europe, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in Europe, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in Europe, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/26/1918
- Executive Order of United States President Woodrow Wilson, 9/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Navigation, 9/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, second cable of the day, 9/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, first cable of the day, 9/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 9/27/1918
- Secretary of State Robert Lansing to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/27/1918
- George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, second cable of the day, 9/27/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/28/1918
- Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 9/28/1918
- Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Commander, Submarine Chaser Detachment Three, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/28/1918
- United States Chargé d’Affaires at Bergen, Norway, Hans Frederick A. Schoenfeld, to United States Embassy at London, 9/28/1918
- United States Chargé d’Affaires at Bergen, Norway, Hans Frederick A. Schoenfeld, to United States Embassy at London, 9/28/1918
- Lieutenant Edward B. Robinette, Assistant Naval Attaché, Stockholm to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/29/1918
- Commander Burrell C. Allen, Commander, U.S.S. DENT, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/29/1918
- Secretary of State Robert Lansing to United States Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, 9/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 9/30/1918
- Intelligence Section, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces in Europe, Information Bulletin, 9/30/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval of Operations to United States Navy, 9/30/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/30/1918
- Office of Naval Intelligence to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in Europe, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 9/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Forces Based in France, 9/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Forces Based in France, 9/30/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Norwegian Consul, Ponta Delgada, Azores, 9/30/1918
- Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/30/1918
- Medal of Honor Citation for Lieutenant Commander James J. Madison, Commander, Ticonderoga, 9/30/1918
- October 1918
- November 1918
- Post-War: Transporting the AEF
- Post-War: The Role of the CNO
- Post-War: Naval Aviation
- Post-War: Demobilization
- Post-War: Sweeping the Northern Barrage
- Post-War: Northern Russia
- Post-War: Humanitarian Aid and Relief
- Post-war: Armistice and Final Treaty
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