Evening star., 1898-04-30
THE RIVAL NAVIES
Warships Of Spain and the United
States.
WHERE THE FLEETS ARE LOCATED
Classification of the American
Vessels.
PURCHASED BOATS INCLUDED

The disposition of the ships of the United
| States navy. according to the best informa-
| tion obtainable at the Navy Department,
| Is follows:
Flagship New York; battle ships Iowa
and Indiana; monitors Terror Puritan and
Amphitrite; cruisers Detroit Marblehead
and Cincinnati; torpedo boats Dupont,
Ericsson, Porter. Foote and Winslow; gun
hoats Wilmington, Helena, Machias, Nash
vile, Newport and Castine; torpedo boat
destroyer Mayfiower; dispatch boat Dol
| phin and light house tender Mangrove-en-
gagged in the blockade of Cuban ports.
Gushing at Norfolk navy yard
Cruiser Montgomery at Key West.
Dynamite cruiser Vesuvius at Hampton
Roads.
Torpedo boat Rodgers at Norfolk under
going slight repairs
Dispatch boats Fern, Leyden and Samo-
set at Key West.
Gunboat Bancroft at Boston.
Gunboat Annapolis at Key West.
Flagship Brooklyn and battle ships Mas
saehusetts and Texas in Hampton Roads.
Cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia, cruis-
Ing off upper New England coast.
Ram katahdin at Provincetown, Mass
Battle ship Oregon and gunboat Mari
alta, at sea in the neighborhood of Monte
Video, Uruguay, en- route to Key West.
Gunboat Bennington, at Honolulu.
Coast defense vessel Monterey and moni-
tor Monadnock, at San Francisco.
Cruiser Alert, at San Juan del Sur.
Flagship Olympia, cruisers Baltimore,
Boston and Raleigh, gunboats Concord and
Petrol, revenue cutter McCulloch and col
liers Nahshan and Zafiro, en- route from
Mrs Bay, China, to Manila, Philippines,
with a view to the capture of a port on TIL
Spanish colony for the establishment of a
base of supplies.
Cruiser Monocacy, at Woosung, China.
Cruisers San Francisco and New Or
leans at New York.
Cruiser Topeka, en- route from England
to New York.
Cruiser Newark, Quitting at Newport
Cruisers Philadelphia and Charleston,
Quitting at Mare Island, Cal.
Cruisers Chicago and Atlanta, under
going repairs at New York.
Torpedo boats Talbot and Gwin, at New
port.
Transport Panther arrived at Key West,
Badger at New York.
Cruiser Albany and torpedo boat Somers,
detained in English ports on account of
neutrality laws.
tors Hamilton and Morrill,, en- route for
Key West.
Montors-Catskill. at Boston; Lehigh, at
League Island, Pa; Nahant, at New York;
Jason. Montauk, Canonicus, Mahopac and
Manhattan, at League Island, Pa; Nam
tucket, at Wilmington N. c.; Passaic. at
Brunswick. Ga; Ajax, at Philadelphia.
Monadnock left Vallejo. Cal, for Puget
sound.
Cruiser Michigan, at Erie, in winter quar-
ters; gunboat Wheeling. at Sitka, Alaska;
monitor Mantonomoh. en- route to Norfolk;
cruiser Pensacola, at Mare Island, Cal. -
Receiving ships-Franklin, at Norfolk;
Independence at Mare Island, Cal: YER
mont, at New York; Wabash. at Boston,
Mass; Richmond. at Philadelphia. Pa.
Training ships-Constelation at Newport.
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Adams. at Mare Island, Cal; Mohican,
cruising in south Pacific. ..- .f ---
Nautical school ships-St.' Mary's. at New
York: Saratoga, at Philadelphia, Pa; En-
terprise at Boston,
Fish commission vessels-Fishhawk at
Boston. Mass; Albatross. at Key West.
Cruisers-St. Paul. at Philadelphia: St.
Louis and New York (HarvarD left Tomp
kinsville. S. l., destination unknown: Paris
tYale), at New York: Yankee, at New y ork;
Dixie, at Newport News, Va; Prairie. at
New York; Yosemite, at Newport News,
Va.
Revenue cutters-McLane at Key Vest
Hudson. Manning, Window and Woodbury.
at Norfolk, Va; Grant, Corwin and Rush
at San Francisco, Cal: Perry, at Port
Townsend, Wash; Gresham and Calumet,
on the lakes.
Lighthouse tenders-Armeria, Norfolk,
Va; Mangrove, Key West. Fla; Maple,
Norfolk; Suwanee, Norfolk
Yachts-Eagle, at Key West: Hawk, at
New York: Hornet, at Key West; Wasp,
en- route from New York to Key West
Vixen, at League Island, Pa; Scorpion. at
New York; Free Lance, at Brooklyn;
Aileen, at New York
Tugs-Algonquin. at Key West, Fla:
Alice, Norfolk, Va; NeZinscot, Key West,
Fla; Osceola. Norfolk, Va. Sioux, Key
West. Fla. Tecumseh. Norfolk, Va; I'm
cas-, Norfolk, Va; Wompatuck New York;
Potomac, Pensacola, Fla; Choctaw, PEN
sacoa, Fla; Powhattan, Pensacola, Fla;
Fearless. Mare Island Cal; Vigilant, Mare
Island, Cal; Active, Mare Island. Cal
Pontiac and Mohawk, at New York, and
Hercules at Norfolk.
Hospital steamer-Solace, Newport News,
Va.
Collers-Merrimac, Norfolk, Va: Leban-
on. Boston, Mass; Nanshan, Yokohama,
Japan: Saturn, at Norfolk; Niagara, at
Hampton Roads: Sterling, New York.
Repair ship-Vulcan, at Boston.
Water ship-1ris, at Norfolk.