The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 228 cargo ships of 1,807,336 .tons. Inaddition Gen. Pershing had gathered a cross-channelfleet which numbered 104 vessels and aggregated311,087 tons. Accordingly the Army had in serviceon November 1, 1918, a fleet of its own amounting to431 ships and totalling 3,004,445 deadweight tons. Atthis time it also had definitely assigned to it 16 alliedtroop ships approximating 150,000 deadweight tonsand 160,000 tons of loaned British cargo ships. OnNovember 13, two days after the signing of thearmistice, the army had
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 228 cargo ships of 1,807,336 .tons. Inaddition Gen. Pershing had gathered a cross-channelfleet which numbered 104 vessels and aggregated311,087 tons. Accordingly the Army had in serviceon November 1, 1918, a fleet of its own amounting to431 ships and totalling 3,004,445 deadweight tons. Atthis time it also had definitely assigned to it 16 alliedtroop ships approximating 150,000 deadweight tonsand 160,000 tons of loaned British cargo ships. OnNovember 13, two days after the signing of thearmistice, the army had American shipping either inoperation or under definite allocation totalling 3,800,-800,000 deadweight tons, a fleet over twice as largeas the entire American merchant marine engaged inforeign trade at the start of the war. In building up this fleet the first great increment,especially In the matter of troop transports, was theseized German vessels. These ships came into serviceduring the fall of 1917 and accounted for approxi-mately 460,000 tons. In the spring of 1918 the taking. The Nations defense was in the hands of these men. The Council of National Defense and the .Advisorymission and the directors and secretaries of both bodies in joint session in the office of the Secretary of War. Washington, D. C.
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