Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Bureau of Engineering, Navy Department: During the World War
In preparing this narrative of the Operations of the Bureau during the war, I have been embarrassed on account of the fact that most of it was written so long after the events recorded - when the officers intimately associated with the work had either been ordered to sea duty or placed on inactive duty - that it has been almost impossible to give adequate space to many matters that deserve recognition. In some cases the records of important undertakings were so con densed, on account of war conditions, as to give all too brief men tion of events that are deserving of extended notice. However, the entire story is submitted in the belief that the facts recorded have in them sufficient merit to be of general interest to all officers of the Navy, as well as to engineers either directly or remotely interested in the activities of that Bureau of the Navy Department which is responsible for the efficient operation of the motive power of our ships.
To Commander William L. Cathcart, U. S. Naval Reserve Force, I am under special obligation for assistance in preparing and in editing the manuscript.
B. S. Griffin, Engineer in Chief, U. S. Nary, Chief of Bureau. May 8, 1921.
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