“’15A.M.—Lieutenant Brace Richardson Ware, Jr., was in command of the Naval Detachment of the Mongolia, which is believed to have destroyed an attacking submarine in the Atlantic recently. The Navy Department has adopted the policy of the British and French Admiralties of not recording as destroyed enemy vessels if positive proof that they have been destroyed in an engagement, is absent. The Captain of the Mongolia reported that the one shot which was fired by Lieutenant Ware’s gunners is believed to have sunk the attacking submarine. That being the case, to Lieutenant Ware and his gun crew belongs the honor of having sunk the first U boat destroyed by an American vessel.”

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Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 8, by Columbia University, 1917, page 777