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 Wellings, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1903- Joseph H. Wellings papers1921-1983 MSC-003 Wellings (Joseph H.) papers 13.35 linear feet This collection consists of materials regarding Wellings’ assignment as U.S. observer of the British Home Fleet, including his reminiscences of the sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941, as well as correspondence, writings, speeches, subject files, and other documentation relating to his naval career. Biographical note

Joseph H. Wellings was born on April 23, 1903, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John A. and Bridget G. Sullivan Wellings. One of four brothers, all of whom became rear admirals in the U.S. Navy, he attended the Samuel Adams School, Boston Latin School, and the English High School, all in Boston, before his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1921. There he participated in many sports and won the Daughters of the American Revolution sword for excellence in practical seamanship.

After graduating from the Academy in 1925, he first served in the battleship USS Utah(BB 31)and then in USS Florida (BB 30) until 1929. After a tour of duty aboard the destroyers USS King (DD 242) and USS Tillman (DD 135), he was assigned to the Harvard University Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At that time he enrolled as a special student at the Harvard Law School.

In 1935, Admiral William D. Leahy, Commanding Officer, Battleships, Battle Force, selected Wellings as his aide and flag lieutenant. He continued in this capacity when Leahy assumed command of the Battle Force in 1936. Before transferring to USS California (BB 44) as senior watch officer, he returned to Boston, where on January 23, 1937, he married Dorothea K. Bertelsen. Their only child, a daughter, Anne, was born in Washington, D.C., in 1938, when he served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations.

By 1940, the war in Europe was already a year old, and Britain stood alone and besieged by Hitler’s war machine. During that summer, Wellings was sent to England as an observer of the British Home Fleet, with additional duty as assistant naval attaché in London. Interested in the operational aspects of the Royal Navy’s forces, he served as operations officer in HMS Rodney during the search for and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. Later he wrote an unpublished manuscript describing those events.

Returning to the United States in June 1941, he served briefly on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations before a three-month assignment with the Fleet Training Division. Appointed commanding officer of USS Strong (DD 467), he prepared the ship for commissioning at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in August 1942. The Strong was involved in convoy operations in the Caribbean and Atlantic before participating in the Casablanca invasion. Assigned to the Pacific, the ship saw action in the Solomon Islands, where she was hit by a Japanese torpedo and sank on the night of July 4–5, 1943, off New Georgia. Wellings courageously stayed with his ship as she went down and was seriously injured when her depth charges exploded. As a result, he spent the next six months in the hospital.

Wellings returned to destroyer commands in March 1944, when he assumed command of Destroyer Division One Hundred and Twenty. Transferred to Destroyer Squadron Two, he again saw action in the Pacific at Lingayen Gulf, the Philippine Islands, in January 1945. Five months before the war’s end, he returned to the United States to an assignment with the Bureau of Personnel. For the next year and one half he was involved in establishing policy for the postwar Naval Reserve and in transferring naval reservists to the regular navy.

From 1946 to 1948 he was a student and a staff member in international relations at the National War College in Washington, D.C. After a year as Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, he returned to sea as commanding officer of USS Columbus (CA 74), flagship of Commander, Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, with duty in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet.

While serving in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel, he was promoted to rear admiral on May 1, 1953. He assumed command of the naval base in Newport, RI, in that rank, with additional duty as Commander, First Naval District.

In the autumn of 1955, he was appointed Navy representative to Joint Task Force Seven and Commander, Task Group Seven Point Three. The task forces conducted atomic tests under the code name “Operation Redwing” on Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls in the Marshall Islands. Wellings was commended for his participation by the Secretary of the Navy. A year as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Plans and Policy was followed by four years as Vice Director, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Both of these posts involved him in delicate negotiations with representatives of the West Indies Federation over United States Base Lease Agreements at the naval base in Chaguaramas, Trinidad.

RADM Wellings’ last assignment was Commandant of the First Naval District and commanding officer of the naval bases at Boston, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He suffered a stroke in March 1963, while vacationing in Trinidad, and retired on August 1, 1963. He and Mrs. Wellings resided on Victoria Avenue in Newport, RI. Their daughter, Mrs. F. P. Heffelfinger, Jr., lives in the Dominican Republic. Admiral Wellings died on March 31, 1988.

The admiral’s medals include the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, the Gold Star, the Purple Heart, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European– African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon, and the Expert Pistol Shot Medal. He was a member of the USNA Athletic Association, the USNA Alumni Association, the Navy League, Seaport ’76, the Newport Historical Society, the Preservation Society of Newport County, and Redwood Library, and was an honorary member of Quindecim.

Chronology of Naval Service note 1925 Graduated, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; Commissioned Ensign; USS Utah (BB 31). 1926-1929 USS Florida (BB 30). 1929-1931 USS King (DD 242). 1931-1933 USS Tillman (DD 135). 1933–1935 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit, Attached; Promoted to Lieutenant. 1935 Commander, Battleships, Battle Force, Aide and Flag Lieutenant to CO, ADM William D. Leahy. 1936 Commander, Battle Force, Aide and Flag Lieutenant to CO; USS California (BB 44). 1938–1940 Navy Department, Office of Chief of Naval Operations, Staff. 1939 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander. 1940–1941 Assistant Naval Attaché, American Embassy, London, England, and Observer with the Royal Navy; Navy Department, Office of Chief of Naval Operations. 1942 Headquarters, CIC, U.S. Fleet, Staff. 1942–1943 USS Strong (DD 467), CO. 1943 July 20, Promoted to Captain. 1944 Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit, Fleet Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, Staff, Destroyer Division 120, CO. 1944-1945 Destroyer Squadron Two, CO. 1945-1946 Navy Department, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Staff. 1946-1948 National War College, Student; Staff Member. 1949-1950 Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans. 1950–1951 USS Columbus (CA 74), CO. 1953 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel), Staff; Promoted to Rear Admiral. 1953-1955 Naval Base, Newport, RI, CO. 1954-1955 First Naval District, Commandant. 1955-1957 Task Group 7.3, Joint Task Force 7, Naval Representative. 1957-1958 Navy Department, Naval Operations (Plans and Policy), Assistant Chief of Naval Operations. 1958-1962 Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Staff, Vice Director. 1962-1963 First Naval District, Commandant. 1963 Aug 1 Retired from the Navy. Collection information

Access is open to all researchers, unless otherwise specified.

Material in this collection is in the public domain, unless otherwise noted. Some material in this collection is Classified and requires a security clearance to access.

“Title,” Date. Joseph H. Wellings papers, MSC-003, Box number, Folder number. Naval Historical Collection, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

The collection is divided into four series: correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, and miscellany. A majority of materials are unclassified; however, several boxes relating to negotiations over U.S. Base Lease Agreements with the West Indies Federation, 1957–1960, are classified. Researchers must have a bona fide security clearance to examine the latter. Unclassified portions of this material are in the main collection.

Series I, correspondence, consists of both official and personal letters sent and received. The official sector contains U.S. Navy orders, accounts, travel vouchers, promotions, and commendations along with intelligence reports submitted as an observer of the Royal Navy, 1940–1941. In addition, there are several cartons of correspondence and messages relating to negotiations with the West Indies Federation over U.S. Lease Agreements at the naval base at Chaguaramas, Trinidad. The bulk of the correspondence, however, contains Wellings’ personal letters to his wife during his active naval service. They focus on major commands and aspects of his career, including his witnessing of the sinking of the Bismarck aboard the Rodney, 1940–1941; his command of USS Strong during WWII operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; and destroyer operations in the Pacific, 1944–1945. In addition, a small segment focuses on his personal business affairs. The collection contains some, but not all, of the letters received from Mrs. Wellings, as well as staff correspondence when he served as Commandant of the First Naval District.

Series II, writings and speeches, comprises three boxes of materials. The writings segment treats Wellings’ observations on the sinking of the Bismark and the Strong, as well as his service as an attaché in Great Britain, 1940–1941. Included are memories of Pearl Harbor, Admiral William T. Halsey, and the Vietnam War. Speeches form the second segment and cover a forty-year period. Many of them were of an official nature and were given while Wellings was Commander of the Newport Naval Base and Commandant of the First Naval District, 1953–1955, 1962–1963; on the Joint Chiefs staff, 1952; and involved in negotiations over U.S. bases in the Caribbean, 1957–1958.

Subject files, series III, contain correspondence, naval messages, memoranda, reports, writings, Navy publications, and journals and lists dealing with significant aspects of his naval career. Especially important for the researcher are materials relating to battleships, 1925–1929; the Battle Force, 1935–1938, when Wellings served as aide to Admiral William D. Leahy; his service in England as naval observer and assistant naval attaché, 1940–1941; Pacific operations in World War II; the postwar Naval Reserve; the naval base at Newport, and the First Naval District, 1953–1955, 1962–1963; the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1952; and negotiations over U.S. bases in the Caribbean, 1957–1958.

The last segment of the Wellings collection contains miscellaneous materials relating to his career. Included are pamphlets and books, certificates, news releases and newspaper clippings, official biographical materials, family and career photographs, and sound recordings and tapes, several of which treat with the sinking of the Bismarck. Two scrapbooks documenting his Naval Academy years and his time as a naval attaché in Great Britain, 1940–1941, are part of this series.

The collection is divided into four series: Series 1. Correspondence Series 2. Speeches and Writings Series 3. Subject Files Series 4. Miscellany

Administrative information

The papers of RADM Joseph H. Wellings were presented to the Naval War College Foundation for deposit in the Naval Historical Collection in two separate accessions: the first, in 1977, consisted of materials regarding Wellings’ assignment as U.S. observer of the British Home Fleet, including his reminiscences of the sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941; and the second, in 1980, was composed of correspondence, writings, speeches, subject files, and miscellany relating to his naval career. Both RADM and Mrs. Wellings, the donors, felt that these materials would be of interest to naval history scholars and would be particularly well placed in the archives of the Navy’s senior educational institution. Additional manuscripts were presented in 1987, 1989, and 2005.

 Subjects Admirals--United States Admiral--United States--Correspondence Admirals--United States--History--20th century Bismarck (Battleship) Communications, Military Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 Naval War College (U.S.) Navy-yards and naval stations--Rhode Island--Newport United States--History, Naval--20th century United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff United States. Navy--History United States. Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945 West Indies (Federation) military campaigns Types of materials Letters (correspondence) Lectures Military commissions Military records Orders (military records) Additional information RG 15, NWC Lectures, Naval War College Wellings, J.H. Briefing on the Naval Base, August 11, 1955, 21pp. Hattendorf, John B. (ed.) On His Majesty’s Service: Observations of the British Home Fleet from the Diary, Reports, and Letters of Joseph H. Wellings, Assistant U.S. Naval Attaché, London, 1940–41. Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1983. Series 1 Correspondence 1925–1980, undated 4.17 linear feet (10 boxes) 1 1 Official Correspondence, U.S. Navy Orders and related career materials 1925–1954 1 2 Official Correspondence, U.S. Navy Orders and related career materials 1954-1963 1 3 Official Correspondence, Accounts and Travel Vouchers 1940–1962 1 4 Official miscellaneous correspondence regarding commendations for other naval officers 1948–1952 2 1 Official Correspondence, Copies of letters sent 1927–1962 2 2 Official Correspondence, Letters received 1929–1963 2 3 Official Correspondence regarding promotions 1935–1955 2 4 Official Correspondence regarding commendations 1939–1956 2 5 Official Correspondence, Officer Data and Questionnaires 1946–1958 2 6 Official Correspondence, Dependents Data 1954 2 7 Official Correspondence, Classified Publications 1940–1962 2 8 Official Correspondence, Security Clearances 1951–1960 2 9 Official Correspondence, Intelligence Reports, Halifax to Liverpool 1940 2 10 Official Correspondence, Intelligence Reports, Miscellaneous 1940 2 11 Official Correspondence, Intelligence Reports 1940 2 12 Official Correspondence, Intelligence Reports 1941 2 13 Official Correspondence, Intelligence Reports, Account of Operations of Bismarck and maps 1941–1969 3 1 Official Correspondence relating to U.S. negotiations with West Indies Federation over Base Rights (disks of correspondence) 1941–1959 3 2 Memorandum of Conference (copy) 1960 3 3 Executive Agreement on Leased Air Bases 1942 3 4 List of Documents, Trinidad Correspondence 1960–1961 3 5 Incoming Telegrams (Disk One) undated 3 6 Incoming Airgrams (Disk One) undated 3 7 Letters (Disk Two) undated 3 8 Foreign Despatches (Disk One) undated 3 9 Letters (Disk B) undated 3 10 Memoranda (Disk A) undated 3 11 Memoranda (Disk B) undated 3 12 Miscellaneous Documents (Disk 4) undated 3 13 Naval Messages (Disk 5) undated 3 14 Outgoing Telegrams (Disk 5) undated 3 15 Foreign Despatches (Disk One) undated 4 1 Thermofax copies of Despatches undated 4 2 Leased Base Agreements, Book 1 1958-1959 4 3 Leased Base Agreements, Book 2 1958-1959 4 4 Leased Base Agreements, Book 3 1958-1959 5 1 Personal Correspondence, copies of Letters sent undated 5 2 Correspondence regarding insurance 1934–1949 5 3 Correspondence regarding income tax 1938–1948 5 4 Letters sent to his fiancée, Dorothea Bertelsen 1935 5 5 Letters sent 1936 5 6 Letters sent to his wife, Dorothea Wellings 1937 Feb 5 7 Letters sent 1937 Mar 5 8 Letters sent 1937 Apr 5 9 Letters sent 1937 May 5 10 Letters sent 1937 Jun 5 11 Letters sent 1937 Aug 5 12 Letters sent 1937 Oct 5 13 Letters sent 1937 Nov 5 14 Letters sent 1938 Jan 5 15 Letters sent 1938 Apr 5 16 Letters sent 1938 May 5 17 Letters sent 1940 Aug-Sept 5 18 Letters sent 1940 Sept-Oct 5 19 Letters sent 1940 Nov 5 20 Letters sent 1940 Dec 6 1 Personal Correspondence, Letters sent to his wife, Dorothea Wellings 1941 Jan 6 2 Letters sent 1941 Feb 6 3 Letters sent 1941 Mar 6 4 Letters sent 1941 Apr 6 5 Letters sent 1941 May 6 6 Letters sent 1941 Dec 6 7 Letters sent 1942 Feb 6 8 Letters sent 1942 May 6 9 Letters sent 1942 Jun 6 10 Letters sent 1942 Sept 6 11 Letters sent 1942 Oct 6 12 Letters sent 1942 Nov 6 13 Letters sent 1942 Dec 6 14 Letters sent 1943 Jan 6 15 Letters sent 1943 Feb 6 16 Letters sent 1943 Mar 6 17 Letters sent 1943 Apr 6 18 Letters sent 1943 May 6 19 Letters sent 1943 Jun 6 20 Letters sent 1943 Jul 6 21 Letters sent 1943 Aug 6 22 Letters sent 1943 Oct 6 23 Letters sent 1944 May 6 24 Letters sent 1944 Oct 6 25 Letters sent 1944 Nov 6 26 Letters sent 1944 Dec 6 27 Letters sent 1945 Jan 6 28 Letters sent 1945 Mar 6 29 Letters sent 1946 Sept 7 1 Personal Correspondence, Letters sent 1948 7 2 Letters sent by Mrs. Wellings to her mother 1950-1951 7 3 Letters sent by Admiral Wellings 1951 7 4 Letters sent 1956 7 5 Letters sent 1958 7 6 Letters sent 1960 7 7 Letters sent 1962 7 8 Letters sent 1963 7 9 Personal Correspondence by Admiral Wellings’ staff on his behalf 1963 Mar 7 10 April 1963 1963 Apr 7 11 May 1963 1963 May 7 12 June 1963 1963 Jun 7 13 July 1963 1963 Jul 7 14 August-September 1963 1963 Aug-Sept 7 15 Letters sent by Admiral Wellings 1966 7 16 Letters sent 1967 7 17 Letters sent 1968 7 18 Letters sent 1971 7 19 Letters sent 1972 7 20 Letters sent 1973 7 21 Letters sent 1974 7 22 Letters sent 1975 7 23 Letters sent 1977 7 24 Letters sent 1978 7 25 Letters sent 1980 8 1 Personal Correspondence, Letters received undated 8 2 Letters received 1925 8 3 Letters received 1932 8 4 Letters received 1934 8 5 Letters received, mainly from his fiancée, Dorothea Bertelsen 1935 8 6 Letters received 1936 8 7 Letters received 1937 8 8 Letters received 1938 8 9 Letters received 1939 8 10 Letters received 1941 8 11 Letters received 1942 8 12 Letters received 1943 Jul 8 13 Letters received 1943 Aug 9 1 Correspondence, Personal letters received 1943 Sept 9 2 Letters received 1943 Oct 9 3 Letters received 1943 Nov 9 4 Letters received 1943 Dec 9 5 Letters received 1944 Jan 9 6 Letters received 1944 Feb 9 7 Letters received 1944 Mar 9 8 Letters received 1944 Apr 9 9 Letters received 1944 May 9 10 Letters received 1944 Jun 9 11 Letters received 1944 Jul 9 12 Letters received 1944 Aug 9 13 Letters received 1944 Sept 9 14 Letters received 1944 Oct 9 15 Letters received 1944 Nov 9 16 Letters received 1944 Dec 9 17 Letters received 1945 9 18 Letters received 1946 9 19 Letters received 1947 9 20 Letters received 1948 9 21 Letters received 1949 9 22 Letters received 1950 9 23 Letters received 1951 9 24 Letters received 1952 9 25 Letters received 1954 9 26 Letters received 1955 9 27 Letters received 1959 9 28 Letters received 1962 9 29 Letters received 1963 Jan 9 30 Letters received 1963 Mar 9 31 Letters received 1963 Apr-Jun 9 32 Letters received 1963 Jul 10 1 Correspondence, Personal Letters received 1963 10 2 Letters received 1966 10 3 Letters received 1967 10 4 Letters received 1969 10 5 Letters received 1971 10 6 Letters received 1972 10 7 Letters received 1973 10 8 Letters received 1974 10 9 Letters received 1975 10 10 Letters received 1976 10 11 Letters received 1977 10 12 Letters received 1978 10 13 Letters received 1980 10 14 Letters received regarding research for the periods 1940-1941, 1969-1980 Series 2 Speeches and Writings 1934-1983, undated 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes) 11 1 Writings, research materials, including notes and photocopies relating to the sinking of the Bismarck 1941 11 2 “On Her Majesty’s Service,” typescript reminiscences of service as an observer of the British Home Fleet 1940-1941 11 3 Diary 1934 Jan 1-1936 Dec 27 11 4 Diary 1940-1941 11 5 Log of yacht Mohawk from Marblehead, Massachusetts, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and return 1947 Jul 19-Aug 2 12 1 Miscellaneous notes circa 1941 12 2 Notebooks containing research on Bismarck and other miscellaneous letters and notes. undated 13 1 Writings, “Recollections of Pearl Harbor and Major Problems of Today" undated 13 2 “Captain William F. Halsey, Jr. and My First America’s Cup Race" undated 13 3 “Recollections of a Seafaring Attache" undated 13 4 “Recollections of a Seafaring Naval Attache” undated 13 5 “I Saw the Bismarck Sink" undated 13 6 “I Saw the Bismarck Sink" undated 13 7 “The Night the Strong Was Sunk” undated 13 8 “Sentimental Journey” undated 13 9 “Reminiscences About Admiral Halsey” undated 13 10 “The Brass and the Vietnam Debacle” undated 13 11 Suggestions Concerning Our Future Naval Leaders 1972 13 12 “Reminiscences on Positions and Promotions, 1957–1962” 1981 13 13 “Book Review, Battleship Bismarck” 1980 13 14 “A Well Kept Secret Recalled” 1983 13 15 Speeches, Assumption Church School 1935 13 16 YMCA Forum Supper 1953 13 17 The Rhode Island Marine, Swearing-In Ceremony 1953 13 18 Women Officers Indoctrination School 1953 13 19 Chaplains School 1953 13 20 Quotable Quotes 1954 13 21 Commissioning, USS Valor (AM 472) 1954 13 22 Chaplains School 1954 13 23 Delivery of Anick (DE 168) and Atherton (DE 169) to Japan 1955 Jun 13 24 CPO Luncheon Group 1955 13 25 Commissioning, USS Hammerburg (DE 105) 1955 13 26 Boston English High School 1958 13 27 NRAC Symposium 1958 Jun 13 28 Quindecim 1958 13 29 Introduction to USNA television program, “I Saw the Bismarck Sink.” undated 13 30 English High School 1962 13 31 Quindecim 1970 13 32 The Night the Strong Was Sunk 1972 13 33 Miscellaneous Speeches and Writings of Others 1943-1962 Series 3 Subject Files 1921-1964, undated 0.83 linear feet (2 boxes) 14 1 Naval Academy 1921-1925 14 2 Battleships 1925-1929 14 3 Harvard 1934-1935 14 4 Battle Force 1935-1938 14 5 Battle Force 1935-1938 14 6 Washington 1938-1940 14 7 HMS Southampton 1941 14 8 London 1940-1941 14 9 HMS Eskimo 1940 14 10 HMS Curacoa 1941 Jan 14 11 HMS Hood 1940 Dec-1941 Jan 14 12 HMS Birmingham 1941 14 13 HMS Rodney, drafts of reports relating to sinking of Bismarck 1941 14 14 HMS Rodney, messages sent and received relating to sinking of Bismarck 1941 May 21-27 14 15 USS Strong 1942-1943 14 16 USS Strong 1942-1943 14 17 Seventh Amphibious Force 1944-1945 14 18 Boston 1944 14 19 Reserve Officers 1945 15 1 National War College 1946-1947 15 2 USS Columbus, Mediterranean 1950-1951 15 3 Naval Station, Newport, RI 1953-1955 15 4 First Naval District 1954-1955 15 5 Trinidad 1957-1958 15 6 Flag Officers 1958-1962 15 7 U.S. Pacific Fleet 1948-1950 16 1 First Naval District 1962-1963 16 2 Papers relating to the retirement ceremony for Captain Blish C. Hills 1964 29 1 Trinidad Messages 1958 Jan 13-20 29 2 Trinidad Messages 1958 Jan 22-31 29 3 Trinidad Messages 1958 Feb 4-24 29 4 Trinidad Messages 1958 Mar 4-19 29 5 Trinidad Messages 1958 Nov 14-18 29 6 Trinidad Messages 1958 Nov 19-Dec 9 29 7 Trinidad Messages 1959 Feb-Apr 29 8 Trinidad Messages (Sections 1–3) 1959 Jul 6 29 9 Trinidad Messages (Sections 4–6) 1959 Jul 6 29 10 Trinidad Messages (Sections 7–10) 1959 Jul 6 29 11 Trinidad Messages 1959 Jul 6-10 29 12 Trinidad Messages 1959 Jul 21-27 29 13 Trinidad Messages 1959 Aug 8-17 29 14 Trinidad Messages 1959 Aug 20-28 29 15 Trinidad Messages 1959 Aug 31 29 16 Trinidad Messages 1959 Sept 29 17 Trinidad Messages 1959 Oct 1-6 29 18 Trinidad Messages 1959 Oct 7-17 29 19 Trinidad Messages 1959 Oct 20-Nov 30 29 20 Trinidad Messages 1959 Dec 2-8 29 21 Trinidad Messages 1959 Dec 9-10 29 22 Trinidad Messages 1959 Dec 11-14 29 23 Trinidad Messages 1959 Dec 15-31 30 1 Trinidad Messages 1960 Jan 4-19 30 2 Trinidad Messages 1960 Jan 20-26 30 3 Trinidad Messages 1960 Feb 2-4 30 4 Trinidad Messages 1960 Feb 11-16 30 5 Trinidad Messages 1960 Feb 17-27 30 6 Trinidad Messages 1960 Mar 2-14 30 7 Trinidad Messages 1960 Mar 15-27 30 8 Trinidad Messages 1960 Apr 1-11 30 9 Trinidad Messages 1960 Apr 14-21 30 10 Trinidad Messages 1960 Apr 22-23 30 11 Trinidad Messages 1960 Apr 25-29 30 12 Trinidad Messages 1960 May 2-10 30 13 Trinidad Messages 1960 May 13-31 30 14 Trinidad Messages 1960 Jun 1-6 30 15 Trinidad Messages 1960 Jun 9-25 30 16 Trinidad Messages 1960 Jul 30 17 Trinidad Messages 1960 Aug 2-25 30 18 Trinidad Messages 1960 Sept 14-20 30 19 Trinidad Messages 1960 Sept 21-24 30 20 Trinidad Messages 1960 Sept 25-27 30 21 Trinidad Messages 1960 Sept 28-30 30 22 Trinidad Messages 1960 Oct 2-4 30 23 Trinidad Messages 1960 Oct 5-10 30 24 Trinidad Messages 1960 Oct 11-14 30 25 Trinidad Messages 1960 Oct 21-27 30 26 Trinidad Messages 1960 Oct 28-Nov 1 30 27 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 3-4 31 1 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 5-7 31 2 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 8 31 3 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 9-16 31 4 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 17-19 31 5 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 21-22 31 6 Trinidad Messages 1960 Nov 23-30 31 7 Trinidad Messages 1960 Dec 1-4 31 8 Trinidad Messages 1960 Dec 5-6 31 9 Trinidad Messages 1960 Dec 7-8 31 10 Trinidad Messages 1960 Dec 9-30 31 11 Trinidad Messages 1961 Jan-Mar 31 12 Trinidad Memos, Letters, Papers, and Remarks 1958 Jan-Feb 31 13 Trinidad Letters and Memos 1960 Jan 12-Mar 21 31 14 Trinidad Letters and Notes 1960 Mar 22-23 31 15 Trinidad Memos, Letters, and Presentations 1960 Mar 26-30 31 16 Trinidad Letters 1960 Apr 15-May 10 31 17 Trinidad Position Papers 1960 May 19-Jun 2 31 18 Trinidad Letters 1960 Jun 17-23 31 19 Trinidad Memos Letters 1960 Jul 31 20 Trinidad Memos, Letters, and Papers 1960 Aug 31 21 Trinidad Memos and Notes 1960 Sept 6-16 31 22 Trinidad Memos and Notes 1960 Sept 19 32 1 Trinidad Memos and Letters 1960 Sept 23-26 32 2 Trinidad Memos and Naval Messages 1960 Oct 4-17 32 3 Trinidad Letters and Memos 1960 Oct 26-31 32 4 Trinidad Memos, Letters, Position Papers 1960 Nov 15-29 32 5 Trinidad Memos, Papers, and Letters 1960 Dec 32 6 Trinidad Letters and Newspaper 1961 Feb-May 32 7 Trinidad Correspondence undated 32 8 Trinidad Correspondence undated 32 9 Trinidad Correspondence undated 32 10 Trinidad Correspondence 1957 Jul-Oct 32 11 Trinidad Correspondence 1958 Jan-Mar 32 12 Trinidad Correspondence 1958 Jun-Aug 32 13 Trinidad Correspondence 1958 Oct 32 14 Trinidad Correspondence 1958 Nov 32 15 Trinidad Correspondence 1959 Mar-Apr 32 16 Trinidad Correspondence 1959 Oct 32 17 Trinidad Correspondence 1959 Nov-Dec 32 18 Trinidad Correspondence 1960 Apr-Dec Series 4 Miscellany 1962-1984, undated 5.42 linear feet (13 boxes) 16 3 Books and pamphlets relating to Boston area yacht clubs 1962-1963 16 4 Pamphlets and booklets relating to Boston area societies 1962-1963 16 5 Tide Tables, Boston, Mass 1962-1963 16 6 Certificates undated 17 1 J. H. Wellings Biography undated 17 2 J. H. Wellings Oral History undated 17 3 Naval Academy Prep School 1981-1985 17 4 Naval Academy Prep School Award 1984-1987 17 5 HMS Bismarck 1970-1980 17 6 Naval War College Foundation 1977 17 7 Naval War College Foundation 1980 17 8 Naval War College Foundation 1981-1982 17 9 NWC Historical Monograph Series, On His Majesty’s Service undated 17 10 On His Majesty’s Service undated 17 11 On His Majesty’s Service undated 17 12 Silver Member Award 1975 17 13 Trinidad undated 17 14 USS Columbus 1975-1981 17 15 USS Strong 1943-1984 18 1 Notebooks, special biography of J. H. Wellings undated 18 2 Outline for Reflections of a Naval Attaché undated 18 3 USS Florida undated 18 3 Notes on the German Navy in WWII by Edward Van Derpatten undated 18 4 Notes on the German Navy in WWII by Edward Van Derpatten undated 18 5 Sentimental Journey of an Observer with the British Navy undated 18 6 Autobiography of J. H. Wellings undated 18 7 Introduction of ADM Hayward at USNA Dinner 1975 18 8 Reflections of a Seafaring Naval Attaché undated 19 1 News releases 1953-1963 19 2 Biography. Drafts of official biography of J.H.W. undated 19 3 Official biography 1950 Aug 19 4 Naval Base, Newport, RI. 1953 Jun 19 5 Office of Information 1953 Jun 19 6 1955 Jul 19 7 1957 19 8 1958 19 9 1962 Apr 19 10 Newspaper clippings undated 19 11 1921-1925 19 12 1926-1928 19 13 1929 19 14 1932 19 15 1934 19 16 1935 19 17 1936 19 18 1937 19 19 1940 19 20 1941 May 19 21 1943 Jul 19 22 1943 Aug 19 23 1943 Sept 19 24 1943 Oct 19 25 1943 Nov 19 26 1944 Aug 19 27 1944 Oct 19 28 1945 19 29 1949 Oct 10-19 20 1 Newspaper clippings 1949 Oct 20-31 20 2 1949 Nov 20 3 1950 20 4 1952 20 5 Newspaper clippings 1953 May 20 6 1953 Jul 20 7 1953 Aug 20 8 Newspaper clippings 1953 Sept 20 9 1953 Oct 20 10 1953 Nov 20 11 1953 Dec 20 12 1954 Mar 20 13 1954 Jun 20 14 1954 Jul 20 15 1954 Aug 20 16 1954 Sept 20 17 1954 Oct 20 18 1955 Feb 20 19 1955 Jun 20 20 1955 Jul 20 21 1955 Aug 20 22 1956 Nov 20 23 1958 Jan 20 24 1958 Feb 20 25 1958 Mar 20 26 1959 Jul 20 27 1959 Dec 20 28 1960 Jan 20 29 1960 Apr 20 30 1960 May 20 31 1960 Nov 20 32 1961 20 33 1962 Mar 20 34 1965 20 35 1966 20 36 1969 Jan 20 37 1970 20 38 1973 Jan 20 39 1973 May 21 1 Photographs, childhood undated 21 2 Naval Academy 1921-1925 21 3 Naval Academy 1925-1929 21 4 Naval Academy 1925-1929 21 5 Naval Academy 1935-1937 21 6 Photographs, England undated 21 7 USS Strong 1942-1943 21 8 1944-1949 22 1 Photographs, USS Columbus (CA 74), Mediterranean operations 1950-1951 23 1 Photographs 1953 23 2 1954 23 3 1955 23 4 1962 23 5 1962 23 6 1963 24 1 Photographs, official photographs of J. H. Wellings 1935-1961 24 2 Wellings family, group photos 1927-1945 24 3 Scrapbook, USS Florida circa 1926-1929 24 4 Scrapbook, Honolulu 1948-1950 24 5 USS Constitution, historical photographs 1896-1931 24 6 Photographs undated 24 7 Negatives undated 25 1 Photographs, Unidentified persons, Malta, Athens, Sicily, Villefranche, Crete, Naples, and USS Columbus (CA 74) 1951 26 1 Sound recordings, Navy Relief Ball 1950 Oct 17 26 2 Leadership speech on Rear Admiral I. H. Nunn, COMNINE undated 26 3 Transatlantic telephone conversation of J. H. Wellings and Baron Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg, senior survivor of the Bismarck undated 26 4 Interview with Rear Admiral Wellings regarding the sinking of the Bismarck undated 27 1 Scrapbook of the U.S. Naval Academy 1921-1925 28 Scrapbook of “On His Majesty’s Service, 1940–1941” letter from Mrs. Wellings 1943 May 1 1 Photographs, prints, and drawings 1925-1962 1 1 Newspaper clippings 1935-1960