Submarine Detachment, Lieutenant Commanders Friedell and Grady, is based on Berehaven, Ireland, and maintains a submarine patrol off the west and south coasts of Ireland.  Their service is hard; they have had a great deal of work at sea and have cheerfully met every demand made on them.  Despite their relative isolation, they have maintained themselves in readiness with the aid of the submarine tender Bushnell, whose limited facilities have been utilized to the utmost.  Their performances and condition of material and personnel reflect great credit on all concerned.

[Sidenote:  Destroyers at Queenstown.]

(a) The destroyers based on Queenstown, Capt.  F.R.P.  Pringle, are the original United States naval force in European waters—­a distinction which is an ever-present spur to cheerful efficiency under any and all circumstances and produces results which must be a satisfaction to their superiors.

[Sidenote:  Changes in destroyer personnel.]

(b) Despite the fact that the requirements of supplying personnel for new destroyers has resulted in large changes in the original experienced destroyer personnel, this has been accomplished in such a manner as to maintain the operating efficiency of the force at or near its original high standard.

(c) Aside from unavoidable casualties, the force is in good operating condition.  The systemization of supply and repairs developed and maintained by the destroyer tenders Melville and Dixie effect the readiness of destroyers for sea with commendable promptness and with a view to the comfort of destroyer personnel during their short stays in port.

[Sidenote:  Destroyer tenders.]

[Sidenote:  Gunnery and torpedo exercises.]

(d) Within the last few months means have been found to systematize and supervise the training, particularly with regard to the carrying out of gunnery and torpedo exercises, which, under the press of keeping the sea, had somewhat lapsed in favor of the necessary development of escort work and of depth-charge tactics.

(e) All of the activities at Queenstown—­the torpedo repair and overhaul station, the training barracks at Passage, the repair force barracks at Ballybricken House, the general supply depot at Deepwater Quay, the hospital and barracks at White Point, as well as the activities afloat—­were well underway and gave an impression of purposefulness in “getting on with the war” in that particular corner of the world.

[Sidenote:  Enlisted Men’s Club at Queenstown.]

(f) On account of the restricted facilities for liberty and recreation, a special and most successful effort has been made to furnish healthful and interesting diversion in Queenstown itself by means of the Enlisted Men’s Club, wholly of and for the men, which is second to none in results obtained in promoting contentment.