The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-12-16
THE HAYT.
Abstract OF Secretary RObesOn's Re-
port.
Nm. w. BELKNAP.
Secretary Of War.

Abstract OF Secretary RObesOn'S Re-
port.
Secretary RObesOn's report of the
naval service for the year shows that
the number OF vessels OF every class
and description now borne on the
NAVY register, is 147. These carry, all
told, ], 1876 guns, and are of 152, ,492 tons
measurement. OF these twenty-siX
carving nominally 266 guns, are sail
ing vessels without steam power, of
which number, four, namely the San
tee, Dale, Saratoga and Portsmouth,
are in use as training aud practice
ships two, the So. ALdTy's and the
jamestown, are assigned TO States as
scholarships, under the act of Congress
providing therefor. Three, the Pau
nee, So. Louis and st. Laurence, are
in use as hospital ships, or as quarters;
six, the ARtietdnl, Ohio, Vermont,
Supply, On1Udrd and Guard, are used
as coal, store and supply ships, at the
various stations and for the several
suuadrons six, namely the hldepen-
dence, NelU Hampshire, Relief, Sd
bile, Potomac and Savannah, are in
commission as receiving-ships two,
the Macedonian and Cgdne, are laid
up in ordinary as useless for present
purposes and one, the old NeIO Or
leans, remaining, IS has been the case
for the last half century on the stocks
at Sackett's harbor. The COnStitu-
ton is useful as practice ship. These
ships, though most of them are useful
| for the purposes to which they are as
signed, and to some extent q necessary
part of the naval service, are in fact
mere representatives OF the navy of
the past, still remaining on the reg
lister to be utilized as best may be, but
of little or no value as part of On
efficient force for either the cruising
or fighting purposes of the present
dav. The steam vessels of the Navy,
as distinguished from iron-clads and
torpedo-ships, number In the whole
95, of which, however, % are tugs en-
ployed as towing, ferry, or torpedo
boats at the various navy-yards, or
stations, or in use as surveying ves-
sells, or in the service of the Fish
Commission, in accordance with the
law directing the same. Twenty
nine, of all classes, are in ordinary at
the yards on the Atlantic, or at Mare
Island. Three, namely, the Gettys.
6urq, Despatch and IdlLdpOoSd are
used as freight and dispatch vessels.
Three more are in commission as
training and receiving ships, at all
| times ready for servics, and the re-
mainder are in commission on the
several stations or are at the various
navy-yards, ready for use when re-
guired. OF these wooden ships eigh-
| teen are in fact new-the Trenton,
adams, ESseT, Enterprise, Alliance,
Alert, Huron and BOnger being the
eight new sloops built under special
| appropriation and ten others-the
| MOnOnqdheld, Tennessee, MOhicOn,
.StOatdrd, VdnddliG, Marion, QIinne-
| Jduq, GdLend, NipSic and TtIlJdpOoSd
have been rebuilt with live oak tim
ber, and supplied with substantially
new machinery during the two or
three years past, Besides such of
| these new ships as are in com mission,
thirty-two others, including the largest
and most efficient ships in the Navy,
are in actual service as cruisers or
training ships, and twelve OF the re-
mainder, though requiring more or
| less repairs to their boilers and ma
chinery, could, if needed, be put in
condition for service as soon as
soldiers could be enlisted to man
them. Our iron-clad fleet consists of
/ tWenty-siX vessels, classed as follows
Three, the Massachusetts, Colossus
and Oregon, which are Of class and
| in condition to be of no service what
ever, having been designed during
the war as large sea-going Iron-clads,
but never launched, and though their
names still appear on the navy list,
they consist only of their wooden
frames, mach deteriorated by time,
and their unfinished armor and ma
chinery stored in the navy-yards. The
remaining twenty-three, consisting of
| tWenty-one vessels of the monitor
type and two iron tOrpedo-ships, are
all efficient vessels of their class and
very powerful in both defensive and
Offensive operations near our shores.
Five of them, namely, the double
turreted monitors Anlphrite, Mondd.
mock, MidRtoRoMGE, Puritan and
Terror, are in process Of complete re.
pair, requiring from four t. six
months to finish if pushed, while the
remaining eighteen, consisting of the
Roanoke, the two tOrpedo-ships
Alarm and Intrepid, and fifteen single
turreted monitors, namely, the Ajdr,
CdnonicIs, CODlGnche, C1tskiLI, Die
tdtOr, Jason, Lehigh, Mdhopac, Man
haitian, MOntGUk. N1lbdIlt, Nantucket,
Pdssdic, Sduglts and RydIldotte, are
all in good condition and ready for
any service at any time. This makes
eighty available ships, including six
teen iron-elads and two torpedo boats.
Our cruising stations remain the same
as last reported in number and desig-
nation, being six separate stations,
each commanded by Rear Admiral
and designated respectatively the Eu-
ropeap, the Asiatie, the South Pa
cific, the North Pacific, the South At
lantic and the North Atlantic Sta
tions- These comprise within their
limits the whole field of naval opera
tions in every part OF the world. De-
tails are given OF the operations fthe
fleet on each station.
THE STRENGTH OF THE HOME
SQUADRON.
The North Atlantic Station is CON-
manded by Rear Admiral j. r. NJ.
! Mullany. or the vessels which COM
posed the force on this station one
! year ago the Cdndnddigud, Kansas
and Wdchusett have been withdrawn
} and put out OF commission. The
RrOOkllHl has been transferred to the