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Title: Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Leighton, John Langdon. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ines per month would usually visit this region.In May, before the chasers began to operate, therewere sixty-five sightings of, sinkings by, and attacks by,submarines within lOO miles of Plymouth. In July,after they had been operating for two months, therewere only forty-five sightings of, sinkings by, and at-tacks by, submarines within the same distance ofPlymouth. This shows that the presence of thesehunting units in certain areas tended to keep the sub-marines away. As the months went by, submarineactivity in the Channel became less and less. OTHER ACTIVITIES It will be remembered that Admiral Sims hadgiven help to the Allied Navies in two ways: first,by fighting the submarine, and then by strength-ening the Allied Naval position as a whole. Inthe execution of the former he had placed Ameri-can destroyers at Queenstown, Brest, and Gibraltar,and submarine chasers at Corfu and Plymouth; healso was having the American Mine Forces lay 80%of the Northern mine barrage. In the execution of
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OTHER ACTIVITIES 85 the latter he despatched dreadnaughts to the Brit-ish Grand Fleet in the North Sea, and stationedthree more at Bantry Bay as a protection againstraiders. There were other ways in which he directedthe activities of our Forces in Europe to the great-est advantage; he established a base at the Azoresand placed submarines at Bantry Bay. In theSpring of 1918 he dispatched a cruiser to Murmansk,Russia; during the summer he operated seventy-fourcargo carriers which carried coal from Cardiff toFrance for the Army, and finally, he developed a seriesof Naval Aviation bases in France, England, Ireland,and Italy. In the Fall of 1917, four submarines and a fewyachts and mine sweepers were ordered to the AzoreIslands under Rear-Admiral Dunn, U. S. N., and abase was established at Ponta del Gada. The AzoreIslands, situated as they are almost in the centre ofthe Atlantic Ocean, offered a most desirable local-ity for an Allied Naval base. Ships, in transit fromAmerica to Europe, in

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