Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Submarine Chaser Detachments One, Two, and Three
26th August 1918.
From: Force Commander
To: Commander Sub-Chaser Detachment, One Two and Three.1
Subject: Summary of Sub-Chaser Operations.
Enclosure: Table.2
1. The enclosed table, while not complete, is compiled from all the data available in reports from sub-chasers. The period of operations which it covers differs for the different bases, but reduced to a quantitative basis it would represent the operations of one hundred and thirteen chasers for one month, (including rest periods) from date of arrival from the United States.
2. Thirteen attacks have been made on what were thought to be submarines, and in six of the cases sound evidence has been verified by sight. In five cases the chasers have commenced the attack with the submarine within one hundred yards. In three of these close attacks sight verified sound. A total of ninety seven depth charges have been dropped in actual attack, exclusive of bombing, of oil spots etc.
3. Several of the attacks justified the belief that the submarine was at least damaged. In the Portland attack of May 30th, the submarine which was on the surface, was seen in the column of water from the depth charge explosion. At Corfu a joint Board of British and American naval officers appointed to report on the action of June 27th, reported that the submarine was “damaged and possibly, even probably destroyed.” The attack of June 28th also at Corfu was excellently conducted.3 All three boats were within hail of one another at the start of the bombing with the submarine plotted in and loudly heard sixty five yards ahead. Seventeen charges were dropped by the three chasers in a pattern surrounding this probable position. Darkness and a depth of 500 fathoms of water made the obtaining of any evidence almost an impossibility. The attack of July 10th at Plymouth was classed by the British Admiralty as “possibly slightly damaged”.4
4. Possibly some of these other attacks are even more worthy of mention, but these serve to show that the chasers have made their pressure felt by the enemy submarines. From the standpoint of collecting evidence of damage it has been an important feature of the operations that many of the best attacks have been made at night, either in over 100 fathoms of
water or in a strong tideway. This is due of course to the fact that low visibility deprives the submarine of the protection he derives from seeing, while leaving him equally vulnerable to attack by sound.
By direction.
Source Note: C, DNA, RG45, Entry 520, Box 387. Document identifier: “O-7” appears in upper left hand corner.
Footnote 1: Capt. Lyman A. Cotten, Commander, United States Naval Base at Plymouth, England; Capt. Charles P. Nelson, Commander, United States Forces Based at Corfu, Greece; Capt. Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Commander in Chief, United States Naval Base at Queenstown, Ireland.
Footnote 2: For enclosed table, see: Illustrations for August 1918.
Footnote 3: Action report not found.
Footnote 4: Action report not found.
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- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Rear Admiral Augustus F. Fechteler, Commandant, Fifth Naval District, 8/23/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- Department of State to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 8/24/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- British Admiralty to Vice Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, North American and West Indies Station, 8/24/1918
- Chester N. Greenough, Emergency Fleet Corporation, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, 8/24/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 8/24/1918
- Information Bulletin #189, Prepared by Intelligence Section Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces in Europe, 8/24/1918
- 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, 8/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Allied Forces in Europe, 8/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/25/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Commander, U.S.S. Oklahoma, 8/26/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commanders, All Bases and Commands in European Waters, 8/26/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/26/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 8/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to General Tasker H. Bliss, American Permanent Military Representative, Supreme War Council, 8/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, second cable of the day, 8/27/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, General Order, 8/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/27/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/27/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/28/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, Patrol Squadrons Based in France, 8/26/1918
- 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, 8/26/1918
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 8/28/1918
- Lieutenant Commander Ronan C. Grady, Commander, Submarine Division Five, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/28/1918
- Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/28/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Flag Officers Operating on the United States East Coast, 8/28/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Commandants of Various Naval Districts, 8/28/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United Stations Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 8/28/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, Confidential Memorandum, 8/28/1918
- 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, 8/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commanding Officers of Submarine Chasers, 8/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 8/29/1918
- Major General William L. Sibert, Director, Chemical Warfare Service to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/29/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/29/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/29/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations All Navy War Warning, 8/29/1918
- Press Conference of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 8/29/1918
- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Various Naval District Commandants and Naval Overseas Transport Service District Supervisors, 8/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, Patrol Squadrons Based in France, 8/29/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, 8/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/30/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/30/1918
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, to First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes, 8/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/30/1918
- Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Commander, Oklahoma, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/30/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 8/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 8/31/1918
- Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 8/31/1918
- Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/31/1918
- Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/31/1918
- Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/31/1918
- Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 8/31/1918
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