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Title: Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York: Appleton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ble officers, presided over byKear-Admiral John Rodgers. Its report com-manded general attention, and is still quoted indebates relating to naval construction. It re-ported that the fleet should be composed oftwenty-one armored vessels, seventy unar-mored cruisers of different types, live ranis, thetorpedo-gunboats, and twenty torpedo-boats,and that steel should be the material of whichthey should be built. The adoption by Con-gress, at the instance of Secretary William V..Chandler, of the principle that obsolete shipsshould not he rebuilt or repaired when the ex-penditure exceeded 20 per cent, of the .-rijinal cost, was an important step in preparing theway for reconstruction. During SecretChandlers administration the 11 Boston, Atlanta, and M Dolphin *<built by John Roach, on deafens furnished the second advisory board. In lsv. si A crit-ical time in our naval reoonstn . the!Department came under the administrationWilliam 0. Whitney. During his adminlatrar 788 UNITED STATES NAVY.
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UNITED STATES NAVY. 789 tion the department has maintained an inti-mate relation with the mechanical industriesand ingenuity of the country; its requirementsfor vessels, guns, armor, torpedoes, and themunitions of war have been of the higheststandard, and every suitable encouragementhas been given to all ship-builders, manufact-urers, and inventors whose efforts promisedsuccess. In 1885, forgings for guns of morethan 6-inch caliber, armor, steel shafting, rapid-tire and machine guns, torpedoes, and torpedo-boats, could be procured only from abroad.Before the end of the present year (1889) thedomestic manufacture of guns of 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch, and 16-inch caliber, steel armorof the highest character and greatest thickness,steel shafting for engines of enormous power,rapid-tire and machine guns and ammunition,dynamite-guns, torpedoes, torpedo-boats, andsubmarine boats will be fully established. Asa result of Secretary Whitneys policy, theUnited States will soon be absolutely indep

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