. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. U. S. S. Leviathan. The H. M. S. Mauretania and U. S. S. Leviathan, two transportswhich carried eight or nine thousand troops to France per trip. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BASES 39 area of activity of the American Navy; therefore asmore destroyers came over, they were ordered toBrest. Later as the influx of American troopsand supplies grew he designated Lorient, St. Nazaire,Rochefort, and Bordeaux as bases, and assigned ves-sels to them. In October 1917, he ordered Rear-Admiral Wilson, who had been in command of theU. S. Naval Forces at Gibraltar, to
. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. U. S. S. Leviathan. The H. M. S. Mauretania and U. S. S. Leviathan, two transportswhich carried eight or nine thousand troops to France per trip. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BASES 39 area of activity of the American Navy; therefore asmore destroyers came over, they were ordered toBrest. Later as the influx of American troopsand supplies grew he designated Lorient, St. Nazaire,Rochefort, and Bordeaux as bases, and assigned ves-sels to them. In October 1917, he ordered Rear-Admiral Wilson, who had been in command of theU. S. Naval Forces at Gibraltar, to Brest and ap-pointed him Commander of our Naval Forces inFrance. Admiral Wilson was in command of his Forcesfrom both an operative and administrative point ofview: in both he was directly responsible to AdmiralSims In London. When Brest first began to function as a real base,the duty of the yachts, as has already been men-tioned, was that of escorting coastal convoys. Asthe influx of American troops grew, it became veryevident that anti-submarine vessels with a g
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