Skip to main content
Naval History and Heritage Command

Naval History and Heritage Command

George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, third cable of the day

Chronological Copy.                           File No. <42-2-4>

Cablegram Received  <September 17, 1918.>  Y-3

Origin Opnav Washington.                       Ser. No. S.M. 449

  C-3   20 Sept

42 ARD                    CONFIDENTIAL.

Simsadus

Boards Navy 449 Gay to Fields. Secrist furnishes following data United States vessels 500 gross tonnage and over operated by United States citizens or United States Shipping Board.

In service Army tankers 3    gross 18529 deadweight 26842

Total Service Army    266 gross 1570588 deadweight 2003387

              Navy tankers 12    70425 deadweight   108834

Total         Navy 56 gross     159999 deadweight   207243.

Food Administration tankers

                    1     gross    1704 deadweight    2300 

Total Food Administration

                     3     gross    9797 deadweight   14900

New England Coal total

                   118     gross  315793 deadweight  473963

Tans-Atlantic subdivided as follows:

British service total  3   gross   28193 deadweight   33300

French Service tankers 2   gross   14485 deadweight   23470

     TOTAL            16   gross   72680 deadweight  113977

Italian Service tankers 3  gross   16877 deadweight   23950

     TOTAL            16   gross   74395 deadweight  111200

Red Cross Russia total 1   gross    4966 deadweight    6700

Other Trans-Atlantic

     TOTAL             4   gross    5856 deadweight    8557

Trans-Pacific subdivided as follows:

East Asian tankers     2   gross    16447 deadweight  24820

     TOTAL            15   gross    50226 deadweight  58000

East India TOTAL      10   gross    16385 deadweight  22219

Australian TOTAL       7   gross    22383 deadweight  23311

British India TOTAL    4   gross    15775 deadweight  22860

Hawaiian Islands tankers  4 gross   21176 deadweight  31400

     TOTAL               34 gross   88159 deadweight 116362

Philippine Islands and

     China TOTAL          1 gross    4407 deadweight   5800

Hawaiian Inter Islands

     TOTAL                6 gross    6311 deadweight   5832

Philippine Islands Inter

     Islands Total        2 gross    1116 deadweight   1525

South American west tankers 1 gross 8651 deadweight  12638

     TOTAL               76 gross  266942 deadweight 389507

South America East TOTAL 32 gross   97679 deadweight  46271

West Indies tankers      13 gross   65562 deadweight  86567

     TOTAL               73 gross  182201 deadweight 230431

Caribbean Sea tankers     3 gross   17326 deadweight  26807

     TOTAL               57 gross  153446 deadweight 158695

Gulf tankers             59 gross  327993 deadweight 483370

     TOTAL               40 gross  120752 deadweight 134391

Atlantic Coast total     76 gross  196176 deadweight 154023

Pacific Coast tankers    14 gross   54208 deadweight  78459

     TOTAL              101 gross   13650 deadweight 153794

Pacific Mexican TOTAL   100 gross    1497 deadweight   1250

Pacific Trans-enroute

  tank ship              1 gross    7170 deadweight  10122

     TOTAL                4 gross    8314 deadweight  10261

Other coast wise tank ships 1 gross   875 deadweight   1300

     TOTAL               80 gross   72522 deadweight  70654

making grand total as follows

Tank ships              119 gross  641438 deadweight 950953

     TOTAL all         1102 gross 3682206 deadweight 4678323

Total includes all types except tank ships. The 4 Red Cross Russian vessel include 1 going to Iceland 1 to West Coast Africa 1 enroute to Italy service and 1 in Spanish service Greenough.1 20617. Boards Navy 449.

Benson.            

SENT:

RECS: 355 A.M. SEPT 19 1918.

Note

  Trans en route comes clear. X 26.

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. The cable is on a printed form and much of the heading material is repeated on the second page of this two-page cable. The handwritten date is confirmed by the time/date notation at the end of the text.

Footnote 1: Chester N. Greenough of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.

Tags
Related Content