Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 1897/98, [v.2], "Appendix to the Report of the chief of the Bureau of navigation" contains correspondence and documents relating to the conduct of the war with Spain, collected, arranged and edited by Ensign H. H. Ward, under the direction of the bureau. |
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... Congress authorized the sale of two old ships , ill - adapted to the present needs of our Navy , and the construction in their stead of a powerful dreadnaught . The second session of the Sixty - third Congress has , therefore , to its ...
... Congress authorized the sale of two old ships , ill - adapted to the present needs of our Navy , and the construction in their stead of a powerful dreadnaught . The second session of the Sixty - third Congress has , therefore , to its ...
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... Congress . The present enlistment is 52,667 , or 4,612 greater than in 1913 , and so attractive has the service become to the youth of the land that it has been possible to have a waiting list , and it is a fact that picked men alone ...
... Congress . The present enlistment is 52,667 , or 4,612 greater than in 1913 , and so attractive has the service become to the youth of the land that it has been possible to have a waiting list , and it is a fact that picked men alone ...
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... Congress , shortly to convene , of a program as progressive as at the session which closed in October , the Navy will be stronger , relatively and actually , than at any period of our history . ESTIMATES SHOW REDUCTIONS . The ...
... Congress , shortly to convene , of a program as progressive as at the session which closed in October , the Navy will be stronger , relatively and actually , than at any period of our history . ESTIMATES SHOW REDUCTIONS . The ...
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... Congress the importance of making a larger increase in the submarine craft , appropriating gen- erously therefor without reducing the appropriations for other craft . The estimates for these were reduced to the minimum . That our Navy ...
... Congress the importance of making a larger increase in the submarine craft , appropriating gen- erously therefor without reducing the appropriations for other craft . The estimates for these were reduced to the minimum . That our Navy ...
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... Congress two types for the first time were included - one of high surface speed , to accompany the fleet , and one for coast and harbor defense . In the building of two such distinct types we are in accord with what foreign countries ...
... Congress two types for the first time were included - one of high surface speed , to accompany the fleet , and one for coast and harbor defense . In the building of two such distinct types we are in accord with what foreign countries ...
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appropriation armor authorized balance battleships Boston building Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance cent charts Class III Class VII Class XX coal Commander commission completed Congress construction contract cost Cruz D.
C. Dsd destroyers detentioners discharge disease and injury duty efficiency ending June 30 Engineering enlisted equipment estimated expenditures fleet Fore River Shipbuilding Fracture guns hospital increase Inter July June 30 Labor Lieut machinery manufacture Mare Island Marine Corps material ment Naval Academy Naval magazine Naval Militia naval prison Naval station Navy Department Navy yard Newport Norfolk Olongapo personnel Philadelphia Portsmouth Public vouchers Puget Sound purchase radio stations Received recommended repairs seaman Sent Sept Shipbuilding statement of disease steel submarine supply TABLE 1.-Detailed statement tion torpedo boats Total number trial Unaudited United States Navy unqualified Vera Cruz vessels Washington Wound yards and stations York
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Página 249 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Página 252 - ... class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor ana armament, not to exceed seven million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Página 252 - That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery...
Página 71 - The Government has recognized heroism upon the water, and bestows medals of honor upon those persons who by extreme and heroic daring have endangered their lives in saving, or endeavoring to save, lives from the perils of the sea in the waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, or upon an American vessel.
Página 14 - Senate and chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives shall be ex officio members of said Board.
Página 249 - REPAIR. CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary...
Página 42 - I have been in almost daily communication with Admiral Fletcher, and I have tested his temper. I have tested his discretion. I know that he is a man with a touch of statesmanship about him, and he has grown bigger in my eye each day as I have read his dispatches, for he has sought always to serve the thing he was trying to do in the temper that we all recognize and love to believe is typically American.
Página 249 - ... wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat ; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair ; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors...
Página 249 - ... and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad ; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith ; bunting and other materials...