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Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation to Read Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 3/2/1917
Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/6/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 3/9/1917
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Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Secretary of Labor William P. Wilson, 3/9/1917
Commander Frank H. Schofield to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/9/1917
Brigadier General George O. Squier to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, 3/12/1917
Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, Surgeon General and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief, Bureau of Navigation, 3/9/1917
Information for Ship Owners Concerning the Armed Guard Program, 3/13/1917
Regulations Concerning Armed Guards, 3/13/1917
Captain William V. Pratt to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/13/1917
Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, President, General Board, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/17/1917
Commander André M. Proctor to Destroyer Flotillas One and Two, 3/19/1917
Sir Cecil A. Spring Rice, British Ambassador to the United States, to British Foreign Office, 3/20/1917
Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, President, General Board of the United States Navy, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/20/1917
Mary Caroline Wing Mayo to Mary Elizabeth Tennant, 3/20/1917
British Ambassador to the United States Sir Cecil A. Spring Rice to British Foreign Office, 3/20/1917
General Staff Office, Jamaica, to British Admiralty, 3/22/1917
British Foreign Office to First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington Colville Barclay, 3/22/1917
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, to the Atlantic Fleet, 3/22/1917
United States Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page to Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 3/23/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 3/23/1917
President Woodrow Wilson to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 3/24/1917
French Ministry of Marine to Vice Admiral Maurice Ferdinand Albert Grasset, 3/24/1917
Executive Order Increasing Enlisted Strength of the U.S. Navy, 3/24/1917
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam, Commander, Pacific Fleet Reserve Force, to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 3/25/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Newspaper Editors, 3/25/1917
First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington Colville Barclay to British Foreign Office, 3/26/1917
On Instructions Given Rear Admiral William S. Sims Concerning His Being the United States Navy’s Liaison with the British Admiralty, 3/28/1917
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Captain George R. Clark, Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, Pearl Harbor, 3/27/1917
Captain Robert L. Russell, Commandant, Philadelphia Navy Yard, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 3/28/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Congress, 3/30/1917
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to President Woodrow Wilson, 3/30/1917
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