Our Navy at war

NEWS FLASHED TO SHIPS AND STATIONS FIVE MINUTES AFTER PRESIDENT SIGNED DECLARATION--ENTIRE NAVY MOBILIZED AT ONCE--FLEET, ON WAR BASIS SINCE BREAK WITH GERMANY, WAS AT YORKTOWN-...

PRESIDENT IN 1914 LAID DOWN POLICY WHICH GUIDED THE NAVY IN YEARS OF PREPARATION--ON VERGE OF WAR IN 1916--FLEET PREPARED TO MOBILIZE--"DEUTSCHLAND" AND U-53 WARNED US TO EXPECT...

SURPRISE AND TERROR PLANNED IN STARTING U-BOAT WAR--BERNSTORFF WITHHELD NOTE UNTIL JUST BEFORE SUBMARINES STRUCK--AMERICA'S ENTRANCE COULD NOT AFFECT "TREND OF THE WAR," HOLTZEN...

MOST IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING OF WILSON ADMINISTRATION HELD MARCH 20, 1917, WHEN IT WAS DECIDED TO CALL CONGRESS IN SPECIAL SESSION TO DECLARE WAR--"I WANT TO DO RIGHT, WHETHER...

COÖPERATION WITH ALLIES THE KEYNOTE OF OUR POLICY--ADMIRAL WILSON FIRST CHOSEN--SIMS' MISSION AND INSTRUCTIONS--SAILED AS "S. W. DAVIDSON," PRIVATE CITIZEN--BRITISH HAD NO PLANS...

FOUR DAYS AFTER WAR WAS DECLARED, BRITISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN ADMIRALS MET AT FORTRESS MONROE TO MAP OUT PLANS FOR IMMEDIATE COÖPERATION--CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON, APRIL 11TH,...

DESTROYERS, AFTER 3,000-MILE VOYAGE, PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE SERVICE--FIRST OF AMERICAN FORCES SENT TO EUROPE--DEADLIEST FOE OF U-BOATS, THEY SAILED VAST AREAS, PROTECTING TROOPS...

BIGGEST TRANSPORTATION JOB IN HISTORY--TWO MILLION TROOPS CARRIED 3,000 MILES OVERSEAS--FIRST CONVOYS ATTACKED BY U-BOATS NO AMERICAN TROOP-SHIP SUNK, NOT ONE SOLDIER ABOARD LOS...

EX-GERMAN VESSELS CARRIED 557,000 AMERICAN TROOPS TO EUROPE--ENGINES AND MACHINERY WRECKED BY THEIR CREWS, GERMANS BELIEVED THEY COULD NEVER BE USED--NAVY REPAIRED LINERS, AND H...

BREST THE CENTER OF GREAT SYSTEM UNDER COMMAND OF WILSON--PATROL SQUADRON SENT OVER IN JUNE, 1917--ARMED YACHTS AND DESTROYERS ENABLED TROOPS TO REACH PORTS SAFELY--"STEWART" PL...

AMERICAN VESSELS ESCORTED NINETY PER CENT OF SHIPPING BETWEEN ENGLAND AND MEDITERRANEAN--GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY SHIPS UNDER COMMAND OF ADMIRAL NIBLACK--U. S. NAVAL FORCES MA...

While escort to Gibraltar-Bizerta convoy on May 17, 1918, the British steamship _Sculptor_ was torpedoed at 6:48 p. m. Submarine was not seen, but the _Venetia_, having been pre...

MINE BARRAGE ACROSS NORTH SEA A TERROR TO U-BOATS--GERMANS PLANNED BIG DRIVE, BUT SUBMARINE CREWS REFUSED TO GO TO SEA--MORALE SHATTERED, KAISER'S NAVY WAS WRECKED BY MUTINY--PR...

SPEAKING TO OFFICERS OF THE FLEET AT YORKTOWN, HE ADVOCATED NEW AND BOLD METHODS--"WHY NOT SHUT UP THE HORNETS IN THEIR NESTS?"--"LEAVE OUT OF YOUR VOCABULARY THE WORD 'PRUDENT'...

U. S. BATTLESHIPS WITH BRITISH GRAND FLEET--DREADNAUGHTS UNDER RODMAN FORMED SIXTH BATTLE SQUADRON--ASSIGNED POST OF HONOR--ATTACKED SIX TIMES BY SUBMARINES--U-BOAT RAMMED THE "...

SUBMARINE CHASERS BORE BRILLIANT PART IN ATTACK ON DURAZZO--SANK ONE SUBMARINE, DAMAGED ANOTHER, AND "THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THEMSELVES"--QUEER CODES FOOLED THE GERMANS--OVER FOUR H...

SHIP SHELLED, MEN WOUNDED, NAVY GUNNERS ON "J. L. LUCKENBACH" FOUGHT SUBMARINE FOUR HOURS--ARMED GUARDS SAILING WAR ZONE BEFORE WAR WAS DECLARED--HAD 227 ENCOUNTERS WITH SUBMARI...

WAR OFF OUR COASTS FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER, 1918--GERMANS SENT SUBMARINES TO INTERRUPT TROOP AND SUPPLY TRANSPORTATION, BUT TRANSPORTS WERE SO WELL GUARDED THAT NOT ONE WAS ATTACK...

THROWN INTO THE BREACH WITH OTHER AMERICANS IN CHATEAU-THIERRY SECTOR, THEY HALTED GERMANS FIGHTING DESPERATELY FOR DAYS, MARINES CLEARED BELLEAU WOOD--CAPTURE OF BLANC MONT RID...

GERMAN LONG-DISTANCE FREAK STOPPED BOMBARDING PARIS WHEN NAVAL RAILWAY BATTERIES ARRIVED--MANNED BY NAVY CREWS, HUGE 14-INCH GUNS OPERATED WITH FRENCH AND AMERICAN ARMIES--ADMIR...

NAVAL AVIATION WATCHED OVER SHIPS AND SEARCHED THE SEAS--FIRST OF U. S. ARMED FORCES TO LAND IN FRANCE--FOUGHT ENEMY AIRCRAFT FROM HELIGOLAND TO POLA--ATTACKED U-BOAT BASES IN B...

"N. O. T. S.," THE WORLD'S LARGEST CARGO FLEET--OPERATING 450 STEAMERS, NAVY HAULED MILLIONS OF TONS OF MUNITIONS, FOOD, FUEL AND SUPPLIES TO FORCES ABROAD--ONLY EIGHT SUNK BY U...

IF GERMANS HAD CUT EVERY CABLE, WE COULD STILL HAVE TALKED TO EUROPE--FROM ONE ROOM IN NAVY DEPARTMENT FLASHED DESPATCHES TO ENGLAND, FRANCE AND ITALY--CAUGHT GERMAN AS WELL AS...

"HERR DOCTOR BRECHT," SPEAKER AT HIS BANQUET IN BUENOS AIRES, WAS U. S. NAVAL AGENT--NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FRUSTRATED PLOTS OF GERMANS--FRENCH EXECUTED TWO WOMEN SPIES CAUGHT NEAR...

HEAD OF RUSSIAN FLEET RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER GLENNON'S ADDRESS TO MUTINOUS SAILORS--AFTER MISSION TO WASHINGTON, BECAME HEAD OF OMSK GOVERNMENT--KILLED BY BOLSHEVIKI--UNITED...

AZORES VITAL IN NAVAL OPERATIONS--"ORION" CELEBRATED FOURTH OF JULY BY DRIVING OFF U-BOAT THAT WAS SHELLING PONTA DELGADA--HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN SHIPS STOPPED THERE ON THE WAY AC...

ABILITY TO SECURE OIL AND TRANSPORT IT TO EUROPE WAS ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS--OUR NAVY PATROLLED CARIBBEAN AND GULF COASTS--TRANSPORTED MATERIAL AND FURNISHED PERSONNEL TO LAY PIPE...

FLOOD OF SUGGESTIONS AND INVENTIONS OFFERED, MOST OF THEM TO DOWN THE U-BOATS--"FIND THE SUBMARINE" WAS THE PROBLEM--BEST DETECTION DEVICES DEVELOPED IN AMERICA--NEW WEAPONS OF...

SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS FOR DESTROYERS--"WARD" LAUNCHED 17-1/2 DAYS AFTER KEEL WAS LAID--"REID" COMPLETED IN 45 DAYS--GREAT DESTROYER PLANT BUILT AT SQUANTUM--PATRIOTS IN OV...

HALF A MILLION RECRUITED AND TRAINED IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS--"ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE WAR," SIR ERIC GEDDES DECLARED--NAVY'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM PAVED THE WAY...

VAST OPERATIONS COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON WITHOUT NAVAL RESERVES AND NATIONAL NAVAL VOLUNTEERS--MANNED HUNDREDS OF VESSELS PLYING TO FRANCE--SERVED ON TRANSPORTS, DESTRO...

MORE THAN ELEVEN THOUSAND REGULARLY ENLISTED--THEY CONSTITUTE THE ONLY WOMEN ENTITLED TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE AMERICAN LEGION--NO LACK OF WOMAN'S NURSING--GIRLS WORKED IN TORPEDO F...

ESCORTING CONVOYS BETWEEN GIBRALTAR AND ENGLAND, CUTTERS MADE NOTABLE RECORD--"TAMPA" SUNK, WITH ALL HER GALLANT OFFICERS AND MEN--"SENECA" SAVED SURVIVORS OF "COWSLIP" AND "QUE...

The death rate in the Navy by disease in 1917-18 was the lowest in the history of wars. Sickness, until the influenza epidemic, was less than in peace time. The loss of days by...

MANY MILLIONS SAVED BY REFUSING TO PAY EXORBITANT PRICES--"NAVY ORDER" PREVENTED EXTORTION--OVER THREE BILLION DOLLARS EXPENDED WITH NEVER A HINT OF GRAFT OR EXTRAVAGANCE--COMPE...

TWO THOUSAND VESSELS IN SERVICE--200,000 MEN OVERSEAS OR TRANSPORTING TROOPS AND SUPPLIES ACROSS ATLANTIC--373 SHIPS, 81,000 OFFICERS AND MEN IN EUROPEAN FORCES--VISITS OF ROOSE...

NAVAL DIPLOMACY PREVENTED CLASH IN FORMER AUSTRIAN TERRITORY AND STABILIZED CONDITIONS IN DISTURBED AREAS--ANDREWS IN THE ADRIATIC--BRISTOL AT CONSTANTINOPLE--MC CULLY'S CONFIDE...