Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume II

Executive Order No. 2625, May 22, 1917

In accordance with a request of the Secretary of the Navy, concurred in by the United States Shipping Board, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to transfer the following German vessels to the Navy for use as colliers and cargo carriers:

• Hohenfelde
• Frieda Leonhardt
• Nicaria
• Kiel
• Rudolf Blumberg
• Vogesen
• Breslau
• Saxonia.

Woodrow Wilson

The White House ,
22 May, 1917.