Policy, Strategy, and Relief Operations for Overseas American Travelers, 1914–15,” Journal of Military History 79, no. Branden Little, “Evacuating Wartime Europe: U.S. War Department, Report on Operations, 1–2. War Department, Report on Operations of United States Relief Commission in Europe (Washington, DC: GPO, 1914), 1–2. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, (FRUS) 1914, Supplement, The World War (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1928), 547–51. Relief Commission in Europe.Ģ0 August Armored cruiser Tennessee (CA-10) sails from Falmouth, England, for the Hook of Holland. Army officers for relief work.ġ8–19 August Armored cruiser North Carolina (CA-12) sails from Falmouth, England, and arrives in Cherbourg, France, the following day carrying $200,000 in gold and additional American officials for the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page with the other $100,000 provided to two U.S. The following day, $400,000 in gold is sent to London, with $300,000 consigned to U.S. warships be sent to protect American lives and property.ġ6 August Armored cruiser Tennessee (CA-10) arrives in Falmouth, England, at 7:45 p.m. interests in the Ottoman cities of Beirut and Smyrna (modern day Izmir) demanding U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau wires Secretary of State William J. Under the auspices of the United States Relief Commission in Europe, the funds are intended to shore up the collapsed European credit system to enable the 125,000 Americans and their interests stranded abroad means to return home.ħ August Armored cruiser North Carolina (CA-12) and collier Vulcan (AC-5) sail from the Boston Navy Yard and rendezvous off Cape Cod with the armored cruiser Tennessee (CA-10) bound for Falmouth, England.ġ5 August U.S. Aboard Tennessee are a delegation of Army officers, additional Navy and Marine Corps officers, five bankers, representatives of the banking interests sending private funds, five representatives of the Treasury Department, a State Department diplomatic advisor, the national director of the American Red Cross and his secretary, and eight War Department clerks and a messenger. The resolution authorized the armed forces to deliver gold abroad, empowering the president “to employ officers, employees, and vessels of the United States and use any supplies of the naval or military establishments, and to charter and employ any vessels that may be required with an appropriation not to exceed $2.5 million.”Ħ August At 10:20 p.m., the armored cruiser Tennessee (CA-10) sails from New York Harbor for Falmouth, England carrying $3 million in gold from private banking interests and $1.5 million in gold coin from a Congressional appropriation to provide financial relief to Americans caught up in the outbreak of World War I.
159Ĥ August President Woodrow Wilson issues a proclamation for a policy of neutrality in regard to the conflict in Europe.ĥ August Senate and House of Representatives pass House Joint Resolution 314 for the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe away from the emerging conflict. The nationality of all vessels, unless otherwise listed, is the United States.Īll errors and omissions are solely those of the author. A thorough chronology remains to be written on the Navy’s actions in regard to World War I. The source base is predominately composed of the published records of the Navy and the primary materials gathered under the supervision of Captain Dudley Knox in the Historical Section in the Office of Naval Records and Library. What is provided is a glimpse into how the 20th century’s first global conflict influenced the Navy and its evolution throughout the conflict and the immediate aftermath.
The document is not a comprehensive timeline of every action, policy decision, or ship movement. This document is intended to provide readers with a chronological progression of the activities of the United States Navy and its involvement with World War I as an outside observer, active participant, and victor engaged in the war’s lingering effects in the postwar period. Naval History and Heritage Command Introduction United States Navy and World War I: 1914–1922
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