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List of vessels in the British Navy, created by Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage. The vessels are indexed and classified as to rate; entries include dimensions, dates when built, and other information. The list was begun on January 1, 1844 and includes corrections through June 1, 1858. The first fly-leaf was autographed by Captain Patrick John Blake less

Three lists of ships in the Royal Navy. One, dated November 9, 1761, is entitled "List of the King's Ships and Vessels in Commission, with an Account how they are disposed; and a State of the Men of such of them as are employed at or near Home." Another, with the same date, is entitled "A List of the Ships and Vessels of your Majesty's Royal Navy; with their Number of Guns, Tons and Men, when Built and Repair'd; distinguishing those which are now in Commission, and the time they may continue fit for service." The third, dated January 1, 1762, is entitled "A List of all His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in Sea Pay, with their present Disposition." less

Daybook of all articles ordered and supplied at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington D.C. The book includes tabulated entries, giving dates when articles were ordered, purpose, when completed, how disposed of, and by whom ordered, dated July 18, 1861 to November 30, 1868 less

Memorandum book of John T. Hawkins, 2nd Assistant Engineer, U. S. Navy, containing an "Account of the principal occurrences during the voyages of the Pensacola," U. S. sloop-of-war on which he served from September 1, 1861 to September 10, 1863; his testimony before the Congressional Committee on Steam Machinery, February 23-24, 1864, comparing general proportions of the Pensacola with those of the Iroquois and Monongahela; a comparison of the theoretical and actual performance of the engines of the Pensacola; notes on steam engineering, including notes on the U. S. S. Brooklyn, Niagara, Minnesota, Iroquois, Roanoke, Mattabessett, and U. S. gun boat Wissahickon less

One letter book kept by Samuel Southard, Secretary of the Department of the Navy, containing copies of letters to officers of the Navy, August 19, 1826 to November 1, 1828; letters to the President and other government officials, May 24, 1824 to July 7, 1828; and letters to members of Congress, the President, and miscellany, December 14, 1823 to November 1825. The volume is indexed less

One letter book with copies of 249 letters to the Marine Committee, members of the Board, Navy captains, Benjamin Franklin, Lafayette, and others, relative to Navy matters. The correspondence dates from October 24, 1778 to October 29, 1779. The Navy Board of the Eastern Department was located in Boston and included commissioners William Vernon, James Warren, and John Deshon less

This volume contains orders received and issued by William Hope between 1791 and 1804, when he was a Captain in the British Navy and in command of these ships: H.M.S. Rattler, H.M.S. Bellerophone, H.M.S. Kent, and H.M.S. Atlas. It includes orders of sailing and lines of battle less

These papers of Francis Tiffany Bowles, Assistant Naval Constructor in the United States Navy, relate to the construction of the U.S.S. Texas and the U.S.S. Raleigh, as well as gun boats, auxiliary boats, and other vessels. They include specifications, costs, reports on progress of construction, photographs of progress, information about machines needed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and data on British war ships and about the speed trial of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa-Kan. The papers also contain data about the U.S.S. Concord and the U.S.S. Detroit less

This collection is comprised of 6 volumes: midshipman's logs of the U. S. frigate Constitution, March 13 1839 through September 16, 1840, and of the U. S. brigantine Boxer, April 21, 1842 through October 6, 1843; letter books while in command respectively of the U.S.S. Pensacola, the naval station at Port Royal, South Carolina, and the navy yard at Norfolk, Virginia, July 31, 1874 through August 5, 1879; letter book as Rear Admiral in command of the Pacific station, January 1, 1883 through March 31, 1884; and journal of the commander in chief of the Pacific squadron, as kept by Lieutenant John A. K. Nickels less

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia. less

These transcripts (2 vols.) of the U.S.S. Brooklyn, Vixen, New Orleans, Marblehead, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Iowa, Oregon, Indiana, and Resolute when the fleet was before Santiago, Cuba in the Spanish American War are said to have been used by counsel for Admiral Winfield Scott Schley at the 1901 court of inquiry which investigated his conduct before and during the battle of Santiago less

Reports of inspection of bottoms, valves, watertight doors, sanitary condition, etc. of U.S.S. Olympia, Captain John J. Read commanding, while at Mare Island, California, Hawaii, Japan, and China. The reports, dated February 16 1895 to December 1, 1896, are signed by the executive officers, chief engineer, medical officer, cadets, and carpenter, and are addressed to the commanding officer less