New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-22
CONDITION Of TIE NAVY.
REPORT OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR WILSON
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WAsHIyGTON Nov 21.-The annual report OF Naval Con
strucor T. d. Wilson Chief of the Bureau of Construction
and Repair has been laid before the Secretary OF the
Navy the report appears that the steel cruisers
Atlanta and Boston are at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn
n Y They have both decked and their bottoms
cleaned and painted and independent OF the work which
had be done by the Government to fit them for sea- al
teraons and additions have been and being made TO
them called for from time TO time by the Advisory
Board The Chicago is still Chester, and the work
her now being pushed rapidly toward completion The
Chief Constructor has asked for additional appopra
ton of $50 OOO which, expected will complete these
vessels.
The Lackawanna now at the Mare Island Navy Yard,
CAL while not yet condemned be repaired for
tive service and suggested that she be converted into
receiving ship to replace the old lneofbattle ship In
dependence
The Tennessee the only firstrate wooden vessel In
tive service. can be kept in service only few months
longer She is undoubtedly in bad condition her main
wae-strakes badly decayed as TO preclude their
being recaked and her lower masheads are so rotten
that il not considered prudent to carry press OF sal
upon them
The Shenandoah has been surveyed and found to be
beyond repair.
been reduced to frstrate ten secondrate, twenty
rdrate and fourthrate yessels-the latter class
including two torpedo rams The tranRlini Wabash
down as requiring extensive repairs. and tnir
teen ironclads require more or less repair airs
teen tugs and twelve wooden sailing vessels used Tor re
ceiying and training ships The new vessels completed
building or authorized 10 DE built are summed up as iO
lows: One, THE Dolphin complete two, Che Boston
and Atanta armament incomplete; five, the Chicago
and the monItors) incomplete; Ave. Uhe baltimore,
Charleston and Newark and two gunboats under adver
tisenent and four ian arnoured cruiser batieship
pneumatic dynamite boat and torpedo Doap not yer
designed To the list OF iron and steel vessels can De
added the Alert and the Ranger four guns each the
Monocacy paddle-wbeel gIInbOat sS guns; hlcnleah'
paddle wheel gunboat four guns Alarm, one gun In
trepd yet TO be completely gun boat Two loihcn guns
The mainder al the ronbuilt vessels now III tne ser
single screw. rated fourhrates, five OF which nave
displacement OF 100 each and eight or them
each They built without double bottoms aic WIN
Illuminated the Sides turrets smoke stacks ana
ventatOrs, and armed with old-fashioned guns
They could not be got ready for service without
expenditure Of 100000 under this Bureau alone.
The saus another vi this class OF vessels, laid up
at the Washington Navy Yard has been condemned
1T for further service.
which the Pa.os and the Pnia cssed IN the register
as fourth rates the former carrying six howzers and the
latter two bowitZers rs batteries.
az the secopdr ufes the Trenton Omaha and vandala
can probably continued In service ten lon2er
the Lancaster and Brooklyn six years. tho Hartford,
Richmond aud Pensacola, five years.
or Third rates the Mohican be continued Ia the
service for ten years the Adams Alliance Essex Enter
prise Tallapoosa Yantic and Nipsc for SIX ears tho
Junat Ossipee Quinnebaug bwhtarh, Oaieua, Marion,
Kearsarge. and Iroqu0is, i've years i0ngef
Plans and specifications have been completed TOT Two
eonpOsebullt fine modelled vesseis To be used as train
ing ships and they could be begun at once II an appr0
priati0n made for them. The Board appointed TO
design plans for the completion Of the
%oors nss nearly nmslsd ~ az Ine Gef
the large vessels provided for At the last session Of Con
gress being built the Navy Yard shonld be built at
begin any such vessel and carry the work with Soma
rapidly.