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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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namite CruiserNo. 2, and a Torpedo Cruiser, all formidable for defensive opera-tions. In addition there are Torpedo Boats, of small build, andfor special attack. They are the Stiletto, Cushing and TorpedoBoat No. 2. The next class of vessels as laid down by the Secretary of theNavy is that of IRON AND WOODEN STEAM VESSELS. This class embracesthe ships of the old navy. The keels ofsome were laid as far back as 1858. Many of them have beenoverhauled and adapted for modern purposes. Several of themhave seen hard and honored service, and their names are historic.Formidable as they were in their time, they are now engaged ina service which is tame, and which would be considered safe, incase of war. They represent the output of the national navyyards, when it was thought that the government could buildbetter and cheaper than the plants under private control. Thisclass embraces Barks, Schooners, Barkentines, and Ships. The Iron vessels of this class are the Barks Ranger and Alert; . .._j^?9w
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«;: 514 OUR PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. the Barkentine Michigan ; the ^z\\oowtxs Monocacy, Palos, Pintaand Alarm. Of the wooden vessels of this class are the Ships Lancaster,Pensacola, Richmond, Swatara, Iroquois; the Barks Omaha,Marion, Mohican, Kearsarge, Adams, Alliance, Essex, Enterprise,Nipsic, Yantic and Thetis ; the Schooners Talapoosa and Dispatch. None of this class have a speed of over 11 knots an hour, butall are strongly armed. The largest of all has a displacementof 3,000 tons and the smallest 420 tons. There are still enough of wooden sailing vessels in our navyto make a class known as WOODEN SAILING VESSELS. This class is being sold off year by year, and is fast becomingextinct. Those still in existence are the Constellation, used as apractice ship at the Naval Academy, Annapolis; the Mononga-hela, Portsmouth and yamestozvn, used as a training squadron ;and the Saratoga and St. Marfs, used as nautical school ships. The class of STEEL, IRON AND WOODEN STEAM TUGS embraces fourte

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