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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... chief fighting force of a well - proportioned navy . The General Board reiterates the opinion it has always held that " command of the sea can only be gained and held by vessels that can take and keep the sea in all times and in all ...
... chief fighting force of a well - proportioned navy . The General Board reiterates the opinion it has always held that " command of the sea can only be gained and held by vessels that can take and keep the sea in all times and in all ...
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... Chief that no mines had been planted , enabled him to locate sunken works , and was of inestimable value in the combined operations of the Army and Navy . The heavy toll that must be paid for progress in all invention calling for daring ...
... Chief that no mines had been planted , enabled him to locate sunken works , and was of inestimable value in the combined operations of the Army and Navy . The heavy toll that must be paid for progress in all invention calling for daring ...
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... Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the civil engineer in charge of the work at the time of the disaster , together with half a dozen of the expert engineers in the service , have devoted a major portion of the year to the effort ...
... Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the civil engineer in charge of the work at the time of the disaster , together with half a dozen of the expert engineers in the service , have devoted a major portion of the year to the effort ...
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... Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance , are at work to obtain the information called for in the naval bill , but as Congress did not adjourn until late in October the committee has not had time for full investigation and for hearings . It is ...
... Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance , are at work to obtain the information called for in the naval bill , but as Congress did not adjourn until late in October the committee has not had time for full investigation and for hearings . It is ...
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... Chief of Bureau of Navigation on the subject of personnel . This subject requires the serious and thoughtful consideration of Congress , as well from a point of view of efficiency as of economy . First attention should always be given ...
... Chief of Bureau of Navigation on the subject of personnel . This subject requires the serious and thoughtful consideration of Congress , as well from a point of view of efficiency as of economy . First attention should always be given ...
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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...