http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq73-1.htm
Deck Logs: Location
Held by The National Archives:
Deck logs of commissioned U.S. Navy ships from the earliest times through 1940 are in the Old Military and Civil Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20408 [telephone (202) 501-5385.
Logs from 1941 through those that are 30 years old or older are in the Modern Military Branch, National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740-6001 [telephone (301) 837-3510]. These logs are open for research. Requests for research appointments, and inquiries concerning log information, should go to the National Archives office holding logs from the time period of interest.
Held By The Naval Historical Center:
Deck logs that are less than 30 years of age are in the custody of the Ships Deck Logs Section, Naval Historical Center, Building 57, 805 Kidder Breese Street SE, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060. All inquiries concerning deck logs that are less than 30 years old should be sent to the Ships Deck Logs Section.
Logs that are less than 30 years old are held in either paper or microfiche form, stored in the Washington National Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road, Suitland MD 20746.
Logs from 1979 through February 1993 are on microfiche in the Ships Deck Logs Section.
Logs from 1990 through 1993 are partly on microfiche in the Deck Logs Section, partly on paper at the Records Center.
All logs from March 1993 are on paper and stored at the Records Center. All deck logs, whether they are classified or FOUO (For Official Use Only) must be sent to the proper authorities at SubPac, SubLant, SurfPac or SurfLant for declassification review or review and release determination before they can be researched or copied. Al Deck Logs that are less than three years of age must be sent to PacFlt for review and release determination.
Deck Log: Format, Research and Duplication
Format: Deck logs are bulky documents. Prior to the 1980s, logs were kept on oversized (10 by 15 inches) paper, a typical log consisting of four or more pages per day.
In the 1980s, in keeping with a Congressional mandate to standardize on 8½ by 11 inch paper, deck logs began to be written, by hand, on pages of that size.
This greatly increased the page count; we have seen single months' logs from recent years run to as many as 300 or 400 pages.
Under the old format, a ship's deck log might run 120 pages or more per month, or over 1200 pages per year. (There are the inevitable exceptions, but this seems to hold fairly true.) Under the new format, logs can run from 100 to 400 pages per month or, say, from 1,200 to several thousand pages per year.
Research in Deck Logs at the Ships History Branch
The Ships Deck Logs Section staff consists of one person. Given the number of inquiries received, the staff cannot read hundreds of pages in response to any one inquiry. Thus the Ships Deck Logs Section is unable to do extensive research in response to queries. Questions must be specific, and must be narrowed down to a particular time and/or place.
All deck logs are either FOUO (For Official Use Only) or classified. Under new regulations/procedures all deck logs must be reviewed for release determination prior to its release to the general public. Reqeusts for copies of deck logs will be treated as a FOIA requests (Freedom of Information Act).
When a request for copies of a deck log are received the Ships History Branch, Deck Logs Section will make a page count of the deck logs requested and determine the estimated cost to either make a microfiche copy or scan the paper deck logs and place them on CD-ROM.
The incoming request, along with the estimated cost of reproduction will then be send to the Navy's FOIA Office. The Navy FOIA Office will send out a letter to the requestor telling them of the cost. If the individual decides to pay the reproduct cost they must notify the Navy FOIA Office that they want to continue their request to reproduce the deck logs. One the Navy FOIA Office gets that notification letter then the Ships History Deck Logs Section will either scan the paper deck logs or duplicate the microfiche deck logs and forward those records to either SubLant, SubPac, SurfLant or SurfPac for final review and release determination. The individual will be notified which command is reviewing the deck logs for release determination and that command will provide the final copy of the deck logs that have been authorized for release.
Duplication of Deck Logs
Due to the restrictions on FOUO deck logs the logs are not available to the general public for research purposes. As stated in the "Research of Deck Logs Section" above, the duplication fee schedule will be what is charged under FOIA. The cost to scan paper deck logs and place them on CD-ROM is 15 cents a page and the cost to duplicate existing microfiche is 25 cents a sheet. Most of the deck logs for the period 1979 to February1993 are on microfiche and the paper copy of the deck logs do not exist. The Ships History Branch will provide a price quote via the Navy's FOIA Office.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Japan-US relations 1930s
We don't do research or comprehensive searching here at the library as our
reference policy states. Recommend you consider visiting our library and our
Operational Archives Branch
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg10.htm
to conduct in-person, in-depth research.
The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/ is probably critical as well.
Basically all of the Navy's World War II documents were transferred to the
National Archives several years ago. Pre-World War II documents were already
there.
Starting point to research this subject:
Here's what we have:
1. The USS Panay incident, 1937 - In our collection, we have some titles related to this subject. Some titles are held in our Special Collection Room and can
only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for interlibrary
loan.
Another title - The China Incident - is not
copyrighted and you could have this duplicated as well. Because this
document is over 100 pages and had been bound.
If you want it reproduced, the Naval Historical
Foundation www.navyhistory.org, which is in an office next to us, has a
Document Reproduction Service and will duplicate the document for you for a
fee. The fee schedule is posted online at
http://www.navyhistory.org/documentservice.html.
2. Naval Conferences - Again, any titles held in our Special Collection Room or Rare
Book Room can only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for
interlibrary loan.
3. Rape of Nanking - Other than the 1997 book by Iris Chang, we don't have
any published material on this topic.
We aren't an archives, so we maintain very few official records of any sort. I think the National Archives is your best bet for this.
4. Naval attaches - we have naval attache reports on microfilm (3 reels).
You can probably borrow these from us through interlibrary loan. Dates cover
1937-1943, reports relating to the "world crisis." Also, you should probably
talk to an archivist at the National Archives. Additional records should be
held there.
5. Plan Orange - We have one book about this. War Plan Orange by Edward
Miller. Additional documents would be at the National Archives.
6. BuShips/BuAir - again, records are at the National Archives, BUT you
could look through our annual Secretary of the Navy reports. We do have
various BuShips and BuAir reports and we have handbooks on foreign ships and
aircraft, but as for designs, we don't have that kind of documentation here.
7. Admirals - we have published biographies here of many admirals and
political leaders; most would be available through interlibrary loan. But
what you probably want are the personal papers collections of these
individuals to really know what they were thinking.
Our Operational Archives
Branch has the personal papers of:
Fleet Admiral Nimitz http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/november/nimitz.htm
Admiral Spruance http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/sierra/spruance.htm
Fleet Admiral King http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/king.htm
Fleet Admiral Leahy http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/lima/leahy.htm
Secretary of the Navy Knox http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/knox.htm
and many others http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/mss.htm
Fleet Admiral Halsey's papers are held at the Library of Congress and Vice
Admiral Lockwood's papers are held at the Library of Congress and some at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford http://www.hoover.org/.
You may want to search the Index of US Naval Institute Proceedings for relevant articles.
Even a magazine like Our Navy may have an occasional article useful to your research.
There are other periodicals in our collection which also probably would provide
articles relevant to research.
Here in the library, we have few primary sources. Although in our Historical
Manuscrips collection
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/manuscript_list.htm
I did find the following which maybe useful to you:
Cone, Hutch I., Commander, USN (later RADM)
The title of the bound journal, Diary of Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, First
World War is inaccurate. Cone attained the rank of Rear Admiral in 1924,
however his service during World War One was actually as a Commander. He
served as a Navy attache involved with the coordination of aviation
resources. His diary reveals he traveled to Paris, London, and throughout
Europe to meet with Admiral Sims, Winston Churchill, Admiral Jellicoe, and
the Aircraft Production Board.
Jones, Carlton B., Rear Admiral, USN
Six official messages sent to Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet in December 1941.
Jones collected these "flimsies" while serving as a lieutenant on the staff
of the Commander, Destroyer Squadron Seven. The following communications are
included:
"Air Raid On Pear[l] Harbor X This Is Not Drill" (7 Dec.).
"Executive WPL Forty Six Against Japan" (7 Dec.).
"Place Naval Censorship In Effect" (8 Dec.).
"Germany Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Italy Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Executive WPL 46 Against Germany and Italy in Addition to Japan Naval
Attaches Advise Naval Authorities" (11 Dec.).
[Additional messages collected by Jones are located in the USS Owen (DD-536)
ZC File.].
As for the Marine Corps, we do collect some material on history of the
Corps, but we recommend you contact the Marine Corps History Division
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm for guidance with your research
in that area.
reference policy states. Recommend you consider visiting our library and our
Operational Archives Branch
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg10.htm
to conduct in-person, in-depth research.
The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/ is probably critical as well.
Basically all of the Navy's World War II documents were transferred to the
National Archives several years ago. Pre-World War II documents were already
there.
Starting point to research this subject:
Here's what we have:
1. The USS Panay incident, 1937 - In our collection, we have some titles related to this subject. Some titles are held in our Special Collection Room and can
only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for interlibrary
loan.
Another title - The China Incident - is not
copyrighted and you could have this duplicated as well. Because this
document is over 100 pages and had been bound.
If you want it reproduced, the Naval Historical
Foundation www.navyhistory.org, which is in an office next to us, has a
Document Reproduction Service and will duplicate the document for you for a
fee. The fee schedule is posted online at
http://www.navyhistory.org/documentservice.html.
2. Naval Conferences - Again, any titles held in our Special Collection Room or Rare
Book Room can only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for
interlibrary loan.
3. Rape of Nanking - Other than the 1997 book by Iris Chang, we don't have
any published material on this topic.
We aren't an archives, so we maintain very few official records of any sort. I think the National Archives is your best bet for this.
4. Naval attaches - we have naval attache reports on microfilm (3 reels).
You can probably borrow these from us through interlibrary loan. Dates cover
1937-1943, reports relating to the "world crisis." Also, you should probably
talk to an archivist at the National Archives. Additional records should be
held there.
5. Plan Orange - We have one book about this. War Plan Orange by Edward
Miller. Additional documents would be at the National Archives.
6. BuShips/BuAir - again, records are at the National Archives, BUT you
could look through our annual Secretary of the Navy reports. We do have
various BuShips and BuAir reports and we have handbooks on foreign ships and
aircraft, but as for designs, we don't have that kind of documentation here.
7. Admirals - we have published biographies here of many admirals and
political leaders; most would be available through interlibrary loan. But
what you probably want are the personal papers collections of these
individuals to really know what they were thinking.
Our Operational Archives
Branch has the personal papers of:
Fleet Admiral Nimitz http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/november/nimitz.htm
Admiral Spruance http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/sierra/spruance.htm
Fleet Admiral King http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/king.htm
Fleet Admiral Leahy http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/lima/leahy.htm
Secretary of the Navy Knox http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/knox.htm
and many others http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/mss.htm
Fleet Admiral Halsey's papers are held at the Library of Congress and Vice
Admiral Lockwood's papers are held at the Library of Congress and some at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford http://www.hoover.org/.
You may want to search the Index of US Naval Institute Proceedings for relevant articles.
Even a magazine like Our Navy may have an occasional article useful to your research.
There are other periodicals in our collection which also probably would provide
articles relevant to research.
Here in the library, we have few primary sources. Although in our Historical
Manuscrips collection
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/manuscript_list.htm
I did find the following which maybe useful to you:
Cone, Hutch I., Commander, USN (later RADM)
The title of the bound journal, Diary of Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, First
World War is inaccurate. Cone attained the rank of Rear Admiral in 1924,
however his service during World War One was actually as a Commander. He
served as a Navy attache involved with the coordination of aviation
resources. His diary reveals he traveled to Paris, London, and throughout
Europe to meet with Admiral Sims, Winston Churchill, Admiral Jellicoe, and
the Aircraft Production Board.
Jones, Carlton B., Rear Admiral, USN
Six official messages sent to Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet in December 1941.
Jones collected these "flimsies" while serving as a lieutenant on the staff
of the Commander, Destroyer Squadron Seven. The following communications are
included:
"Air Raid On Pear[l] Harbor X This Is Not Drill" (7 Dec.).
"Executive WPL Forty Six Against Japan" (7 Dec.).
"Place Naval Censorship In Effect" (8 Dec.).
"Germany Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Italy Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Executive WPL 46 Against Germany and Italy in Addition to Japan Naval
Attaches Advise Naval Authorities" (11 Dec.).
[Additional messages collected by Jones are located in the USS Owen (DD-536)
ZC File.].
As for the Marine Corps, we do collect some material on history of the
Corps, but we recommend you contact the Marine Corps History Division
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm for guidance with your research
in that area.
Great White Fleet visit to Albany Western Australia 1908
Book source:
"Around the World with the Fleet, 1907-1909: A Pictorial Log of the Cruise." (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1929).
Image source:
Our Photographic Section may have photos of the fleet's visit to Albany.
That branch doesn't have an e-mail reference service.
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm.
That Still Picture Branch of the National Archives may also have photographs of the Great White Fleet in Albany.
Still Picture Branch (NNSP)
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
301-837-3530
1-866-272-6272
http://www.archives.gov/contact/
inquire@nara.gov
3) manuscript source:
Admiral Charles S. Sperry who commanded the fleet during its visit to Australia may have written about the visit to Albany in his personal papers which are held by the Library of Congress in the Manuscript Division
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/
The description that we have of his papers collection suggests there is little in the collection about the cruise, but it may be worth checking with the Library of Congress.
Sperry, Charles S.
Papers, 1862-1912, 2,300 items
Naval officer and diplomat. General and family correspondence, orders to duty, journals, reports, memoranda, and other papers relating to Sperry's naval career, particularly his activities in the Philippines (1898-1900), and to his role as a U.S. delegate to the Geneva Convention (1906) and the Second Hague Conference (1907). Includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt concerning the world cruise (1908-1909) of the Battle Fleet commanded by Sperry.
"Around the World with the Fleet, 1907-1909: A Pictorial Log of the Cruise." (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1929).
Image source:
Our Photographic Section may have photos of the fleet's visit to Albany.
That branch doesn't have an e-mail reference service.
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm.
That Still Picture Branch of the National Archives may also have photographs of the Great White Fleet in Albany.
Still Picture Branch (NNSP)
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
301-837-3530
1-866-272-6272
http://www.archives.gov/contact/
inquire@nara.gov
3) manuscript source:
Admiral Charles S. Sperry who commanded the fleet during its visit to Australia may have written about the visit to Albany in his personal papers which are held by the Library of Congress in the Manuscript Division
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/
The description that we have of his papers collection suggests there is little in the collection about the cruise, but it may be worth checking with the Library of Congress.
Sperry, Charles S.
Papers, 1862-1912, 2,300 items
Naval officer and diplomat. General and family correspondence, orders to duty, journals, reports, memoranda, and other papers relating to Sperry's naval career, particularly his activities in the Philippines (1898-1900), and to his role as a U.S. delegate to the Geneva Convention (1906) and the Second Hague Conference (1907). Includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt concerning the world cruise (1908-1909) of the Battle Fleet commanded by Sperry.
Directory of naval libraries
Go to http://library.nrl.navy.mil/nkn and look on the left-hand side of the page for "Directory" which will lead you to a list of naval libraries.
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