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
U.S. NAVAL FORCES OPERATING IN EUROPEAN WATERS.
PATROL SQUADRONS BASED ON GIBRALTAR.
U.S.S. DECATUR, FLAGSHIP
PERSONAL AND
REFERENCE No. CONFIDENTIAL. 2 July, 1918.
Dear Sims:
I see published in the Associated Press in New York from London, dated June 7, 1918, that Archibald H. Hurd,1 says: “Unity of command is maintained in the North Sea where the Grand Fleet is supported by some of the finest of the American warships, and offers it’s daily challenge to the enemy. Unfortunately unity of command is not yet fully attained in the Mediterranean where five navies are working, without counting the Greek and Brazilian which also are coming, but while the British is responsible for the anti-submarine operations, unity of command has only been achieved to a certain extent. The question of naval control of the Mediterranean must become one of great interest to the American people”. In some of my recent official letters I have tried to indicate how many compromises have to be made in the Mediterranean on account of the different interests.2 Now that we are going to send ships to Marseilles to unload stores for the Army, it will be a little bit more complicated still. There is not the slightest friction here in any way with the British, but the Italian and British relations are rather difficult. There is one thing in connection with our personnel here which has bothered me a good deal, and that is, a number of the Commanding Officers have been passed over or have a grievance, and with the grinding work of escorting, and the constant chances of “Courts of Enquiries”, a good many of them have been anxious as to their future. Of course, Connor got what was really coming to him, as he was easy going.3 The trouble is, all the convoy instructions, and ALNAVS, and other instructions, encourage officers to express their ideas and recommendations. I killed many of Ropers before he could get them on paper.4 It was very difficult to take him seriously, but he certainly handled the CYTHERA beautifully, and was always ready for anything, any hour of the day or night. Roper is simply pestiferous and cannot help it. The real trouble with him is, besides being passed over, he wanted to resign just before war came on, and would have done so, and he is going to get out as soon as the war is over, and I certainly will not be sorry.
Hardly a day passes that Admiral Grant5 does not telegraph, or make some suggestion to Malta, with regard to orders that are issued in the Mediterranean. I keep my fingers out of the pie almost entirely. As far as I am concerned, the situation is personally not at all difficult, it is very pleasant, and I know of no trouble among the other officers except the constant desire of all of them to get destroyer duty. Very few seem satisfied to serve on yachts or gunboats. That certainly is no fault of mine. As we have constant changes in officers here, it is not easy to keep them all indoctrinated.
I have been advised indirectly that there are some Brazilian ships coming here. I hear that the Brazilians are anxious [to] nestle under our wing rather than under the British, but unless I get instructions I certainly will do nothing except to be cordial and polite. Having been Naval Attache to Brazil, I think I know the situation.
Personally I am extremely well satisfied with my job here, and am not conscious of kicking about anything, except to make things work smoothly and efficiently. In other words, <if> unity of command has only been achieved to a certain extent in the Mediterranean it is not because I havent done everything I can to boost it and play the game. The real trouble is, Malta does not understand the situation here at Gibraltar well enough. There is needed a Liaison Officer (British) because the two places are always talking at cross purposes. Personally I regard Grant here<,> as one of the levelest headed, and steady men I know, and one of the very ablest.
They are going to change the Governor down here, early next month and that means dinners galore. Inside of the walls here at Gibraltar, the war is not very realistic. While on the water-front, and at the DOCKYARD, it is sizzling night and day.
Very sincerely yours,
Nibs
Source Note: LTS, DLC-MSS, William Sims Papers, Container 76. Identifier in upper-right corner: “WHW-18.”
Footnote 1: A prominent British journalist who wrote extensively on naval matters.
Footnote 2: For earlier correspondence on Niblack’s frustrations in the Mediterranean, see: Niblack to Sims, 8 May 1918, 21 May 1918, and 21 June 1918.
Footnote 3: Lt. Cmdr. John F. Connor. It is unknown what happened to Connor, although he is listed in the 1919 Navy Register as still serving at the same rank.
Footnote 4: Lt. Cmdr. Walter G. Roper, formerly commanding officer of the armed yacht CYTHERA. For more on Niblack and Sims’ assessment of Roper, see: Niblack to Sims, 21 June 1918 and Sims to Niblack 2 July 1918.
Footnote 5: VAdm. Sir William L. Grant, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station.
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- 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
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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, 7/19/1918
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- August 1918
- September 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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