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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
Chronological Copy. File No. <42-4-1>
Cablegram Received July: <17, 1918.> 19219 MJK
Origin Opnav Washington. Ser. No. 8644
R 2 July 20
31 ADR CORRECTED COPY.
Simsadus:
8644. Your 1299.1 You are authorized to take over and man following Army Transports which are being operated by General Pershing2 on bare boat charter with civilian crew. Names following AU SABLE, JUPITER, KERESAN KERLEW LEVISA USAT [United States Army Transport] MCCLENNAN <MCCLELLAN> WILLIAM O-BRIEN BERWIND HIL<T>ON KEROWLEE KERMOOR LOUIS <Lewis> K THURLOW MOLDEGARDE CAROLINIAN FRED’K LUCKENBACK<h> KERKENNA KERWOOD MACONA PEQUOT. In addition above you are authorized to take over and man 20 Lake steamers3 now operated by General Pershing on time charter from Shipping Control Committee manned with civilian crew. Names following LAKE ARTHUR LAKE LEMANDO LAKE OWENS LAKE SUNAPEE LAKE WESTON LAKE CAPENS LAKE ELIZABETH LAKE CLEAR LAKE LILLIAN LAKE PEWAUKEE LAKE TRAVERSE LAKE EDON LAKE MARRY LAKE PORTAGE LAKE CRESCENT LAKE OTISCO LAKE ST REGIS LAKE TULARE LAKE ST CLAIR LAKE LARGO.
First 19 vessels will continue on bare boat charter and will be taken over as soon as you have personnel available. Second 20 vessels will continue on time charter as at present until taken over by you when they will be taken on bare boat charter.
Second 20 Lake steamers will be taken over and manned as opportunity permits.
Direct present agent to continue operation until you are ready man vessels.
Cost of supplies, repairs, et cetera will be paid from Naval appropriation and will be later adjusted and charged to Army account. Acknowledge.25017 8644
Benson.
Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. The handwritten date is confirmed by the time/date stamp at the end of the cable.
Footnote 1: This document has not been found.
Footnote 2: Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces.
Footnote 3: Lake steamers were commercial vessels originally built for use on the Great Lakes, but converted for oceanic use during the war.
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- 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
- 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, 7/29/1918
- 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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- 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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