Annual Report of the Secretary of the NavyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Naval art and science |
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amount appropriated boat boilers Boston Briggs building bulge bulkheads Bureau advertisement dated Bureau of Ordnance caliber Charles H charts Chas Childs & Co Class 20 clerk coal Commander Cruiser cylinders ending June 30 engines erected Estimated feet fiscal year ending fitted Forsaith Machine Company frames gear gun cotton guns Harry L Iron J. B. Morrell Joseph Wechsler July June 30 League Island Lieut machinery manufacture Mare Island Marine Corps Maxwell & Moore Naval Academy Naval Constructor Navy Department navy-yard Neville Niles Tool Nine-tenths completed Norfolk officers Ordnance overhauled paymaster pipes Pleasants Port pounds projectile Proposals protective deck pumps R. A. Robbins riveted Rowland S. C. Forsaith Machine Sept shaft shell ship Soper station steam steel tion Tissot & Schultz torpedo Total trial tubes turret U. S. Navy valves vessels Washington water-tight Woodward & Lothrop
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