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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Reports on U.S. Navy operations, regulations, and expenses presented to Congress during the current session, crediting the Board of Navy Commissioners for efficient organization. Includes extract on estimated annual costs for various vessel classes on cruise and in ordinary.
Merged-components note: Merged the table into the navy costs article as it spatially adjacent and content appears to be the continuation of the vessel costs table mentioned in the text, despite OCR errors in numbers.
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There has been much information on the subject of the navy, its employment, regulations, expenses, &c. laid before congress, during the present session, in pursuance of resolutions of one or the other house. The shape in which that information is afforded, the precision and lucidness of the order in which facts are presented, strongly attest the advantages which the country has derived from the establishment of the board of navy commissioners, as now constituted. The civil head of the department is relieved in a great degree from the technical duties which ought not properly to devolve on him, and is enabled to apply his time and talent to the general direction of the navy and to its civil administration. We have already presented to our readers one long report of the navy commissioners; and there is another now before us, replete with interesting information. We have not room even for long extracts from it; but the following statement of the cost of vessels in and out of service is comprised within a small compass, and will be interesting to many readers:
EXTRACT FROM AN OFFICIAL REPORT,
Query 7th "What is the estimated average cost per annum, of vessels of the following classes respectively, viz: 12, 16, 20, 32, 36, 44, 74--1st, on cruise; 2d, in ordinary; 3d, when dismantled?"
"The commissioners, having had reference to a series of estimates made at various periods during the existence of the navy have to state, that the following appears to be about the average estimated cost per annum, on cruize, viz:
A. 12 to 14
$90,595
16 to 18
37,440
20 to 24
45,700
36 gun frigate
74,900
36 gun do
97,500
44 do
112,000
74 do
360,000
The annual expense of vessels in ordinary, exclusive of any repairs to which they may be subject, may be estimated as follows, viz:
With respect to the annual cost of vessels dismantled, the commissioners have to observe, that they know of no difference in the expense of vessels in that state and when placed in ordinary, as dismantling is a necessary preliminary step to their being placed in ordinary."
[Ibid.]
| A 12 to 14 | D2.477 00 |
| I6 to I8 | 2,664 50 |
| 20 | 3,279 00 |
| 32 | 4,205 75 |
| 36 | 4,604 25 |
| 44 | 5,002 75 |
| 74 | 6,432 50 |
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During The Present Session
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Information on the navy, its employment, regulations, expenses laid before congress in pursuance of resolutions. Advantages from board of navy commissioners noted. Extract from official report on estimated average cost per annum of vessels of classes 12, 16, 20, 32, 36, 44, 74 on cruise, in ordinary, and dismantled.