SHIP TONNAGE OF THE PRINCIPAL NAVAL SHIPS BUILT AND BUILDING. November 1, 1908. Battleships Battleship best-defense Battleships Coast-defense ssels Cruisers Armare Cruisers estroye Torpedo boats Destroyers Cruisers 320,040 Tens. 284,778 Tona. Destroyers Torpedo boats 444, 903 Tons. PERSONNEL OF THE PRINCIPAL NAVAL POWERS. Number of officers and men for each 1,000 tons of total effective warship tonnage buiit and building. a a This table does not include transports, colliers, repair ships, torpedo depot ships, converted merchant ships or yachts, gunboats less than 1,000 tons, torpedo craft of The number of officers given in the table for France, Italy, and the United States are the numbers allowed by law. In the cases of Great Britain and Germany the The United States has no engineer corps; in Great Britain the amalgamation of the executive branch with the engineers has begun. d France, Italy, and Japan have no chaplains. Many of the British chaplains are also naval instructors. The warrant officers of the British and United States navies have no exact equivalent in other navies. The most closely corresponding positions are found in the f of the enlisted personnel of Italy (27.500), only 20.492 are at sea; the remainder (7,008) are employed at shore stations. The number at sea per 1,000 tons is 71.9. OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, December, 1908. Appropriations for the naval establishment. RECAPITULATION. 1883 (47-2). 1884 (48-1).. 1885 (48-2). 1886 (49-1). 1887 (49-2). 1888 (50-1).. 1889 (50-2). 1890 (51-1). Year and Congress. 1891 (51-2). 1892 (52-1).. 1893 (52-2). 1894 (53-2). 1895 (53-3). 1896 (54-1). 1897 (55-1). 1898 (55-2). 1899 (55-3). 1900 (56-1).. 1901 (56-2). 1902 (57-1). 1903 (57-2). 1904 (58-2). 1905 (58-3). 1906 (59-1). 1907 (59-2). 1908 (60-1)... Total... Annual. $14,819, 976, 80 15, 94, 434. 23 14,980. 472.59 15,070, 837.95 16, 489, 907. 20 25, 767, 348. 19 19, 942, 835. 35 21,692, 510. 27 24, 136, 035. 53 31. 541, 654. 78 23,543, 385.00 22, 104, 061.38 25, 327, 126. 72 29, 416, 245. 31 30, 562, 660. 95 33,003, 234. 19 56,098, 783. 68 48, 099, 969.58 65, 140, 916. 67 78, 101, 791.00 81,876, 791. 43 97,505.140.94 100, 336, 679.94 102,091, 670. 37 98,958, 507.50 122, 662, 485. 47 1,215, 165, 462. 92 The "additional" appropriation for 1896 was appropriated in two sessions of Congress-(54-1 and 54-2). The "additional" appropriation for 1898 includes $50,000,000, which was appropriated for "national defense." [PUBLIC-No. 308.] An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. PAY OF THE NAVY. Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers and receiving ships, and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of pay corps; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters' rolls; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers' force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, forty-two thousand men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; prizes to be awarded to the engineer divisions of the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, thirty-two million eight hundred and three thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents. The provisions of the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes," providing for the retirement in the next higher grade of officers of the navy who served |