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Commander David Worth Bagley, brother-in-law of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, hero of Jacob Jones disaster Evening public ledger., March 26, 1918, Final, Image 9 (with photo) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1918-03-26/ed-...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Bagley "David Worth Bagley (January 8, 1883 – May 24, 1960) was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. ... On December 6, 1917, Bagley conned his ship out of Brest harbor. At about 1621 that afternoon, the watch spied a torpedo wake. The destroyer maneuvered to avoid the torpedo, but in vain. It struck her starboard side and pierced her fuel oil tank. Though Bagley and his crew worked frantically to save the ship, she went down within eight minutes carrying 64 crewmen with her. Bagley and 37 others made it into the icy water in boats and on rafts, and, thanks to the humanitarian gesture by Kapitänleutnant Hans Rose, the U-boat commander who radioed their location to Queenstown, they were all picked up by the 8th. Bagley earned the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his part in handling the situation."

From Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides ... Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 31, 1918 from Committee on Public Information books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ caption is "REGAINED GROUND: Ground recovered near the River Meuse, near Beaumont, on August 27, 1917. The picture shows a chaplain and stretcher bearer exploring 'No man's land' for wounded and dead soldiers."