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Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he whole of each vessel when completeand ready for service. The board submitted a report in Novem-ber following, upon which was based the construction of the firstbatch of steel cruisers. The board recommended that seventy vessels of all classes bebuilt as rapidly as possible. A storm of adverse criticism wasthe result, and Secretary Chandler, succeeding Secretary Hunt,was forced to convene a second board. The recommendationof this advisory board included the building of the four steelvessels which are now in commission—the Chicago, Boston,Atlanta, and Dolphin. The acts which authorized the buildingof these ships, the nucleus of the new navy, bear date of August5, 1882, and March 3, 1883. The contracts were taken for allfour of the vessels by John Roach & Sons in July, 1883. Theappropriations for these four vessels had been obtained withdifficulty owing to the opposition of Southern and Westernmembers. The designs of the vessels, the material and theworkmen, were to be American.
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306 OUR PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. Just here it is well to know something of the plan and styleof the new navy. Study had been made of the modern navalsystems of other powers and of our own needs. It was decidedthat the new American navy should embrace three generalgroups of vessels: First, those which came under the head of Ocean Cruisers; second, Battle Ships ; third, Coast De-fenders. To these were added a fourth system of smallervessels, such as torpedo boats, rams, etc. The Cruiser is, as its name implies, a swiftly moving,powerfully armed vessel, with immense coal capacity for longvoyages. The Battle Ship is equally swift and strong, and may beeffective for ocean warfare or coast defence. The Coast Defender is also large, very strong, powerfullyarmed, and of lighter draft than the foregoing. But the Secretaries of War, in their reports, group the navalvessels as follows: (i) Armored vessels. (2) Single turret monitors (iron). (3) Unarmored steel vessels. (4) Iron and wooden steam vesse

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