TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Secretary's Office:

Secretary's report, 5–56.

Appendices

General board on building program and personnel, 1916, 59-69.

Bureau of Navigation on building program and personnel, 1916, 70–74.

List of officers and men who were mentioned for heroism and bravery at

Vera Cruz, 75-77.

List of officers and men who have received commendatory letters during

the past year for various acts of heroism and bravery (other than at

Vera Cruz), 77-79.

Sales of Hydrographic Office charts and publications, 80.

Comparative Statement of Estimates and Appropriations, 1915-16, Navy

Department, 81-94.

Report of Solicitor, 95-100.

Report of Judge Advocate General, 101-125.

Bureau of Yards and Docks, report of, 127-140.

Bureau of Navigation, report of, 141-161.

Appendices

Report of Hydrographer, 163-175.

Report of Superintendent, United States Naval Observatory, 177–194.

Report of Division of Naval Militia Affairs, 195–212.

Report of Naval Radio Service, 213–229.

Bureau of Ordnance, report of, 231–244.

Bureau of Construction and Repair, report of, 245–277.

Bureau of Steam Engineering, report of, 279-288.

Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, report of, 289.

Balance sheet of general ledger (sheet 1, facing p. 290).

Statement A-

Table 1.-Appropriations and funds (sheets 2-16, facing p. 290).

Table 2.-Statement showing the expenditures for the Naval Establishment,
292-293.

Statement B-

Table 1.-Total expenditures under each appropriation, showing amounts

chargeable each title for each class of expenditures (sheets 1-19, facing

p. 294).

Table 2.-Expenditures for construction of new vessels (title A), 295–296.

Table 3.-Expenditures for maintaining ships in commission, 297–305. -

Table 4.-Expenditures for repairs to vessels (title D), 306–314.

Table 5.-Expenditures for repairs to equipage of vessels (title P), 315-318.

Table 6.-Expenditures for maintenance and improvement of navy yards

and stations, 319-325.

Table 7.-Expenditures for maintaining shops of industrial navy yards, by

shops, 326-329.

Table 8.-Expenditures for maintaining shops at industrial navy yards, by

accounts, 330.

Table 9.-Statement of general expense at industrial navy yards, 331–332.

Table 10.-Statement of power expense at industrial navy yards, 333–334.

Statement C-

Table 1.-Statement showing value of supplies received and expended by

general storekeepers, etc., during the fiscal year, and the balance on hand

July 1, 1913, and June 30, 1914, 335.

Table 2.-Statement of the value of stores (titles B and Y) received and

expended on board ships in commission, 336.

Table 3.-Statement of receipts and expenditures of provisions, fiscal year

1914, 336-337.

Table 4.-Statement of ship's stores accounts, 337.

Table 5.-Statement of receipts and expenditures of provisions, naval aux-

iliaries, 337.

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Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, report of-Continued.

Statement C-Continued.

Table 6.-Statement of receipts and expenditures of clothing and small

stores, 338.

Table 7.-Statement of clothing and small stores fund, 339.

Table 8.-Statement of midshipmen's store fund, 339.

Statement D

Table 1.-Statement of public sales of condemned Government property,

340-341.

Table 2.-List of purchases of condemned Government property, with

amounts received from each, 342-344.

Statement E-

Summary of contracts, 345.

Statement F-

Statement of receipts and expenditures of Marine Corps stores, 345.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, report of, 347-362.

Appendices-

Table No. 1.-Detailed statement of disease and injury, 363-453.

Table No. 2.-Classified diseases, etc., among occupational groups, 454-455.

Table No. 3.-Cost of hospital maintenance, 456.

Table No. 4.-Activities of medical supply depots, 456.

Table No. 5.-Statement of naval hospital fund, 456.

Marine Corps, report of Major General Commandant, 457-474.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.

To the PRESIDENT:

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 1, 1914.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the annual report of this department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, including operations and recommendations and estimates to date.

The Navy was not neglected in the unparalleled record of constructive legislation made by the second session of the Sixty-third Congress. That forward-looking body evinced a true appreciation of the country's real need for a continuously healthy and normal growth of the Navy; and the legislation it enacted approved nearly every recommendation made in the department's report of last December. As a result of the ready spirit and wise discrimination of that Congress, the naval appropriation bill, decreased below last year's figures, provided for two dreadnaughts instead of one, and, later in the session, seizing upon a rare opportunity, 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 credit the authorization of three new dreadnaughts. In addition to these new dreadnaughts, there were authorized six torpedo-boat destroyers and eight or more submarines, one of which is to be a seagoing vessel, the first of its kind. The estimates for the short session call for an increase embracing dreadnaughts, destroyers, and submarines, and likewise for other craft needed. These estimates have been prepared with consideration for the needs of the service and the necessity for economy which the rigors of foreign war have imposed upon our national budget. These recommendations granted, the increase will be noteworthy and will give us a wellrounded Navy equal, if not superior, to that of any Navy in the world, ship for ship and man for man.

The past year in the Navy affords gratification to all who take pride in its growth, strength, and usefulness. In every line of