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Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, to Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Destroyer Force, 4/4/1917
British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour to American Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page, 4/5/1917
Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, President, General Board of the Navy, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/5/1917
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Vice Admiral Henry F. Oliver, Royal Navy, to Vice Admiral David Beatty, Royal Navy, 4/6/1917
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Remembers the Start of World War I [April 1917], 4/6/1937
United States Ambassador to Great Britain Walter H. Page to Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 4/6/1917
Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, Standing Order Number One, 4/6/1917
President Woodrow Wilson Executive Order Concerning the Coast Guard, 4/7/1917
Diary of Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché at Rome, 4/7/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 4/8/1917
Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/9/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 4/10/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 4/11/1917
Commander Harris Laning to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/12/1917
Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 4/13/1917
Vice Admiral Montague E. Browning, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station, to British Admiralty, 4/13/1917
Vice Admiral Montague E. Browning, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station, to Secretary of the Admiralty Sir W. Graham Greene, 4/13/1917
Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/13/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Secretary of State Robert M. Lansing, 4/13/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 4/14/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/14/1917
Captain Richard Webb, Director of Trade Division, British Admiralty, Memorandum to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 4/15/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral Walter McLean, Commandant, Fifth Naval District, 4/15/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/16/1917
Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster General, Intra-Bureau Order Number 166, 4/17/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 4/17/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/18/1917
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam, Commander, Pacific Fleet Reserve Force, to Commander Frank B. Upham and Commander Master W. J. Kelton, 4/18/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/19/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 4/19/1917
Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/20/1917
Secretary of the Admiralty Sir W. Graham Greene to Admiralty Departments, 4/20/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 4/20/1917
Commander Nathan C. Twining, Commander, Nantucket Division Patrol Force, to All Vessels, 4/20/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 4/20/1917
All Navy Radiogram Concerning Recognition Signals, 4/20/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/21/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/22/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 4/22/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, 4/22/1917
Diary of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Destroyer Force, 4/22/1917
Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Destroyer Force, to Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Division Eight, 4/23/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/23/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Destroyer Division Eight, 4/23/1917
Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 4/23/1917
Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig to Special Service Division, Destroyer Force, 4/24/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Captain William D. MacDougal, United States Naval Attaché in London, 4/24/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/24/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/24/1917
Commander Joseph K. Taussig to Special Service Division, Destroyer Force, 4/24/1917
British Ambassador to the United States Sir Cecil A. Spring Rice to British Foreign Office, 4/25/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/25/1917
Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, to British Admiralty, 4/25/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Bureaus of Ordnance, Construction and Repair, and Navigation, 4/25/1917
Captain Roy C. Smith, Commandant at Guam, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/26/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe to Rear Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair, 4/26/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe to Rear Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair, 4/27/1917
Rear Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair to British Admiralty, 4/27/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/27/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/27/1917
Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 4/27/1917
United States Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page to Secretary of State Frank Lansing and President Woodrow Wilson, 4/27/1917
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe to Rear Admiral Sir Dudley R. S. De Chair, Commander-in-Chief, North American and West Indian Station, 4/27/1917
Commander William R. Sayles, United States Naval Attaché at Paris, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/28/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims to President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/28/1917
Admiral Sir Dudley R.S. De Chair to First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, 4/28/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, and Captain William D. MacDougall, American Naval Attaché in London, 4/28/1917
Executive Order of President Woodrow Wilson, 4/28/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Eighth Destroyer Division, 4/29/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Lieutenant Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Eighth Destroyer Division, 4/29/1917
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/30/1917
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Navy Yards, 4/30/1917
Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/30/1917
Secretary of the Admiralty Sir W. Graham Greene to Rear Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Destroyers Operating from British Bases, 4/30/1917
Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 4/30/1917
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