Louis
Noblanc, U.S. Army (rating unknown)
Served
as Master at Arms, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer [?] until
June 6, 1917, when he was separated from the vessel and entered the
U.S. Army.
Fritz
C. Nyland, Ensign, U.S.N.R.F.
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred to the Service
and jurisdiction of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer
he was a commissioned officer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey with
the rank of Aid.
Effective
September 24, 1917, he was enrolled as Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve
Force and was assigned to duty as Assistant Communication Officer
on the U.S.S. ISIS, under Gilbert T. Rude, U.S.N.R.F. The vessel at
that time was Flagship to Admiral F. Johnston, U.S.N., Commanding
Escort Squadron of Naval Overseas Transportation Service.
He remained
attached to the U.S.S. ISIS until January 13, 1918, when he resigned
from the Coast and Geodetic Survey and accepted a temporary commission
as Civil Engineer, U.S. Navy.
Thomas
O'Conner, THOMAS, Seaman, U.S.N.R.F.
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred with the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer ISIS to the service and jurisdiction of
the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer he was a seaman on the
ISIS.
Effective
September 24, 1917, he was enrolled as seaman in the U.S. Naval Reserve
Force and he served on the U.S.S. ISIS in that capacity from that
date until April 25, 1919, when he was returned to the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
Floyd
Oles, U.S. Army (rank unknown),
Served
as fireman on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Yukon until October
16, 1917, when he separated from this vessel and entered the Coast
Artillery of the U.S. Army.
P.K.
Oscarson, Coxswain, U.S.N.R.F.
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred with the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer ISIS to the service and jurisdiction of
the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer he was Coxswain, Power
Launch, on the ISIS.
Effective
September 24, 1917 he was enrolled as coxswain in the U.S. Naval Reserve
Force and served on the U.S.S. ISIS, but the length of his service
is not known at this office, as he did not return to the Coast and
Geodetic Survey.
Robert
C. Overton, Ensign, U.S.N.R.F.
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred with the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer Bache to the service and jurisdiction
of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer he was a Mate on
the Bache.
Effective
September 24, 1917, he was enrolled as Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve
Force, at Norfolk, Va., on November 26, 1917.
From
the date of his transfer until September 13, 1918, he served as Watch
Officer on board of the U.S.S. Bache, the vessel being engaged in
guard and patrol duty in the vicinity of Cape Henry, Va. He was then
transferred to the Department of Tugs and in October, 1918 he was
assigned as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Advance, engaged in harbor
towing, docking and undocking vessels, and in Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic
Coast towing. He remained in Command of the U.S.S. Advance until relieved
from active duty in the U.S. Navy on March 26, 1919, and he returned
to the Coast and Geodetic Survey on April 1, 1919.
Osborne
H. Paddison, Lieutenant (j.g.) (E), U.S.N.R.F.
On May
15, 1918, by Executive Order 2861, he was transferred with the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer Patterson to the service and jurisdiction
of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer he was Chief Engineer
of the Patterson.
On June
1, 1918, he was enrolled in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force and was given
the provisional rank and grade of Lieutenant (j.g.) (Engineer Duties
Only). On June 8, 1918 he accepted his appointment and took the oath
of office.
On July
1, 1918 in accordance with orders, he reported to the Office-in-Charge,
Navy Recruiting Station, Seattle, Washington, who directed him to
proceed to San Francisco, California and report to Supervisor, Naval
Auxiliary Reserve at that place for assignment to active duty.
From
July 10 to August 25, 1918, he served in the office of the Supervisor,
Naval Auxiliary Reserve at San Francisco, when he was detached and
assigned to the Navy Yard, Mare Island, California for duty in connection
with fitting out of the U.S.S. Violet and on board that vessel as
Senior Engineer Officer when commissioned.
On January
11, 1919, he was detached from the U.S.S. Violet and in accordance
with orders reported on January 14, to the Supervisor, Naval Auxiliary
Reserve at San Francisco for assignment to duty. On February 5, 1919,
he was detached from duty at that office and was ordered to report
to the Supervisor, Naval Auxiliary Reserve at New York for duty, where
he reported on February 13, 1919, and soon thereafter was assigned
for temporary duty under the Director of the U.S. Navy School of Turbine
Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., where
he remained until the temporary duty was completed on March 15, 1919
and on the following day in accordance with orders reported to Lieutenant
J. J. Henry, U.S.N.R.F., at Schenectady, N.Y. for temporary duty.
He was
relieved from active duty in the U.S. Navy on April 2, 1919, returned
to the Coast and Geodetic Survey on the following day, and was assigned
to duty as Chief Engineer of the Steamer ISIS.
Edwin
H. Pagenhart, Captain, E.O.R.C., U.S. Army,
On May
20, 1918, by Executive Order 2863, he was transferred to the service
and jurisdiction of the War Department and was commissioned Captain
in the Engineer Officer’s Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army. Previous
to his transfer he was a commissioned hydrographic and Geodetic in
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
From
June 15, to August 15, 1918, he was at the Engineer Officer’s
Training Camp at Camp Lee and Camp Humphrey, Va.
On August
15, 1918, he was assigned to the 472nd Engineers and was placed in
command of the Ft. Sill, Oklahoma Detachment of the same regiment.
He was ordered to make a battle map for the use of the Field Artillery
in the training of officers, but while this work was still in progress
he was detached and ordered to Pensacola, Florida.
On November
29, 1918, he was ordered to take charge of the control work of the
topographic map of the area within a radius of twenty miles of the
entrance to Pensacola Bay. The work involved levels, traverse and
triangulation and at the time of his discharge had been extended over
about one third of the area.
Captain
Pagenhart was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, at Washington,
D.C., on March 6, 1919 and returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey
on the following day.
A copy
of a letter from Major General W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers, U.S.
Army, dated April 15, 1919, conveying appreciation of the services
of Captain Pagenhart appears in Appendix I of this report.
Ernest
Parker, U.S. Army (rank unknown),
Served
as a hand in one of the field parties operated under the Division
of Geodesy of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, until May 13, 1918, when
he separated from the party and entered the U.S. Army.
H.
F. Parker, Seaman, U.S.N.R.F.,
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred with the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer Bache to the service and jurisdiction
of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer he was a seaman on
the Bache.
Effective
September 24, 1917, he was enrolled as seaman, in the U.S. Naval Reserve
Force and he served in that capacity on the U.S.S. Bache, but the
length of his service is not known at this office, as he did not return
to the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
William
E. Parker, Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R.F.,,
On September
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred to the service
and jurisdiction of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer
he was with the Coast and Geodetic Survey as a commissioned Hydrographic
and Geodetic Engineer.
On October
8, 1917, he was enrolled as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval
Reserve Force, Class 4 for duty in Class 5, and was placed on waiting
orders until October 19, on which date he was ordered to report to
the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory.
His first
duty at the Naval Observatory as that of Assistant in the Division
of Time Service and National Instruments and in the Division of Compasses.
After serving a while in both divisions he was permanently assigned
to the Compass Office and made Assistant to the Superintendent of
Compasses, who was also Assistant Superintendent of the Observatory.
During the absence of the Superintendent of Compasses he performed
his duties including those of Executive officer at the Naval Observatory.
On March
1, 1918, he was placed in charge of the Compass Office and continued
in this position until relieved from active duty in the Navy, March
20, 1919.
While
in charge of the Compass Division, his duties consisted of preparing
allowance lists of compass material for Navy vessels of all kinds,
the preparation of specifications for the manufacture of this material,
the determination of quantities required and the recommendation of
awards, and also the inspection of this material.
The compass
office at the Naval Observatory had Supervision over all kinds of
compasses in the Navy, including the magnetic compass on all classes
of surface vessels, submarines, aircraft, and gyroscope compasses.
While
he was in charge of the Compass Office, the Navy adopted on the recommendation
of the Naval Observatory a new type of ship standard magnetic compass,
a new type of submarine magnetic compass binnacle, two types of aircraft
compasses, and a new type of gyroscope compass.
Lieutenant
Commander Parker on February 25, 1919 was recommended for promotion
to Commander by Rear Admiral T.B. Howard, U.S.N. Retired, who at that
time was Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, but was relieved
from active duty by Executive Order before any action could be taken.
Further
information relating to his services at the Naval Observatory appears
in a copy of a letter from Rear Admiral Howard in part II of this
report, which refers to his valuable services and eight other officers
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
On March
20, 1917, he was relieved from active duty with the Navy and on the
following day returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Doreteo
Pascoal, U.S.N. (rank unknown),
Served
as Quartermaster on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Pathfinder
until November 2, 1917, when he separated from the vessel, at Manila,
P.I., and enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
Raymond
S. Patton, Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R.F.,
On Sept.
24, 1917, by Executive Order 2707, he was transferred to the service
and jurisdiction of the Navy Department. Previous to his transfer
he was with the Coast and Geodetic Survey as a Commissioned Hydrographic
and Geodetic Engineer.
He was
enrolled as Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force, Class 4 for
3 and on Nov. 19, 1917, was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation,
U.S. Naval Observatory as Assistant in the Time Service and Nautical
Instrument Division, under Rear Admiral J.B. Howard, U.S.N. Retired.
He served as Assistant in this division until March 1, 1918, when
he was placed in charge, relieving Commander C.T. Jewell, U.S.N. Retired.
This
division was charged with the purchase and distribution to naval vessels
of all navigational instruments except compasses and compass fixtures:
with the cleaning, compensation rating and issue of chronometers to
the naval service; and with sending out the daily time signal by telegraph
and radio.
Prior
to the war, these instruments had been obtained largely from various
foreign sources of supply, and upon the elimination of these sources
it became necessary to develop the production of such instruments
in this country. This fact, combined with the urgency and amount of
the demand rendered the task of their procurement decidedly difficult
at times, and in some cases it was only by purchasing, borrowing or
commandeering every existing instrument which could be located, that
the demand was successfully met.
He was
promoted to Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R.F. on Oct. 1, 1918, was
honorably discharged on March 31, 1919 and returned to the Coast and
Geodetic Survey on April 1, 1919.
For further
information, see letter of March 4, 1919, from Read Admiral T. B.
Howard, U.S.N. Retired, which refers to the valuable services of Lieut.
Commander Raymond S. Patton and eight other officers of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
