Letter from the secretary of the Navy upon the subject of establishing navy yards at Great Barn island, Perth Amboy, and Jersey City, &c., December 12, 1836, referred to the Committee on Naval  Affairs.
Contributors: Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853.; Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838.
Series: Doc. / Ho. of Reps -- 24th Congress, 2nd session, no. 18
Publisher: Blair & Rives, printers
Published: 1836
Place of publication: [Washington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Navy-yards and naval stations -- New York (State) -- New York; Navy-yards and naval stations -- New Jersey
Other titles: Navy Dept., Navy yards--Great Barn Island, Perth Amboy, &c.
Notes: Caption title.

Written by "Loammi Baldwin, Esq., the distinguished engineer, under whose superintendence the dry docks at Boston and Norfolk were constructed," (cf. p. [1]) who had been asked by Mahlon Dickerson, the secretary of the Navy, to prepare this report. Signed on p. 9 by both "The Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy" and "L. Baldwin."

With: Dry dock, New York. [Washington] : Thomas Allen, print., [1838] -- Report of the Navy Commissioners to the secretary of the Navy, upon the subject of a dry dock at Brooklyn, in the state of New York, March 29, 1838. [Washington] : Thomas Allen, print., [1838] -- Letter from the secretary of the Navy upon the subject of a dry dock at Pensacola, or some other place in the Gulf of Mexico, May 12, 1840. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1840] -- Opinions of the New York press, expressed editorially, in favor of the sectional floating dry dock, preferring it to all others. Washington City : William Greer, printer, 1843 -- An argument in favor of the iron balance dock of John S. Gilbert. New York : Printed at the Tribune Power Press Printing Establishment, 1844 -- Report of the secretary of the Navy communicating (in compliance with a resolution of the Senate) plans and estimates for the construction of a permanent wharf and a dry dock at Pensacola. [Washington : s.n., 1844] -- Memorial and resolutions of the Common Council of the city of New York, relative to the survey of the waters within the harbor of New York, March 11, 1844, read and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1844] -- Dry dock, New York Harbor, February 28, 1844, read and referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, Mr. Murphy from the Committee on Naval Affairs made the following report. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1844] -- Mr. Simpson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made the following report. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, print., [1844] -- Letter from the secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of officers and engineers relative to the properties and advantages of a dry dock, &c., March 3, 1845. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, print., [1845] -- Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made the following report. [Washington : s.n., 1846] -- A brief sketch of the plan and advantages of a sectional floating dry dock. New-York : Printed by P. Miller, 1845 --                 Bound together subsequent to publication.