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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... deck or manning the gun , or conquering the currents of the air by wireless . In a word , in every activity of our many - sided service , officers and men have risen in splendid performance of duty 6 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY .
... deck or manning the gun , or conquering the currents of the air by wireless . In a word , in every activity of our many - sided service , officers and men have risen in splendid performance of duty 6 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY .
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United States. Navy Department. officers and men have risen in splendid performance of duty to add new glory and new luster to our Navy , which , from the days of Paul Jones and Barry to those who fought at Vera Cruz , has won glory ...
United States. Navy Department. officers and men have risen in splendid performance of duty to add new glory and new luster to our Navy , which , from the days of Paul Jones and Barry to those who fought at Vera Cruz , has won glory ...
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... duties and is attended with no little personal discomfort ; but with the new order of things a transformation will take place . " Oiling ship " will be an operation that will cause no more per- sonal or material inconvenience than the ...
... duties and is attended with no little personal discomfort ; but with the new order of things a transformation will take place . " Oiling ship " will be an operation that will cause no more per- sonal or material inconvenience than the ...
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... duty if I did not urge the necessity of retaining the naval petroleum reserves as such and augmenting them by other areas in other fields in order to obviate the necessity of increased appropria- tions in the future to purchase what now ...
... duty if I did not urge the necessity of retaining the naval petroleum reserves as such and augmenting them by other areas in other fields in order to obviate the necessity of increased appropria- tions in the future to purchase what now ...
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... duty of acting as censor of radio communications . This work has been done without friction or injury to commercial business . It became necessary for the Government to take over the radio station at Tuckerton , N. J. Its ownership was ...
... duty of acting as censor of radio communications . This work has been done without friction or injury to commercial business . It became necessary for the Government to take over the radio station at Tuckerton , N. J. Its ownership was ...
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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...