  ? | Chapt. | | Page | | I. | Early ship-building in Philadelphia and Colonies—Paul Jones—Joshua Humphreys—Alliance—Truxtun—Embargo—Decade following War of 1815—Rebecca Sims—Inauguration of Packet Lines—Thomas P. Cope—Decay of Eastern Trade in Philadelphia—Auction Sales of Cargoes | 11 | | | II. | Birth—Relatives—High School—Magnetic Observatory—Note on Davidson—Surf-boats for Mexican War—First Propeller Tug Sampson—ship-builders of New York and Philadelphia—Clipper Ships, 1850—Zenith of American Carrying Trade—Crimean War—Cunard Line—Libertador—Armored Ships—Board Appointed to Take Charge of Appropriation to Build Them—Account of New Ironsides—The Monitor—Speech of Bishop Simpson—Sub-Department of Navy—Light-draught Monitors—Sinking of the First—Collapse of Sub-Department—Rebuilding of Yazoo, Tunxis and Others—Miantonomah—Origin of Fast Cruisers—Evolution of Modern Marine Engineering in this Country | 39 | | | | III. | Foreign Commerce in 1865—The Clyde and George W. Clyde, and Introduction of Compound Engines—Commerce of 1870—Merchant Marine—Lynch Committee—Mr. Cramp and Committee—Lynch Bill—American Steamship Company—Visit to British Shipyards—John Elder—British Methods—Interchange of Methods—Merchant Marine, Continued—Dingley Bill—Defects—Act of 1891, Providing Registry for Foreign Ships—St. Louis and St. Paul—Extract from Forum—Remarks on Article—Committee of ship-builders and Owners—New Bill Introduced by Frye and Dingley—North Atlantic Traffic Association—New Shipyards—Tactics of North Atlantic Traffic Association—Our Navigation Laws, North American Review—Mr. Whitney—Unfriendly Legislation—Mr. Whitney’s Letter—Effects of Letter—Mr. Cramp’s Letter to Committee of Merchant Marine—International Mercantile Marine | 97 | | | | IV. | Condition of Navy after Civil War—Admiral Case’s Fleet—Virginius Scare—Huron, Alert and Ranger—Secretary Hunt—First Advisory Board—Secretary Chandler—Puritan Class—Finished—Steel—Hon. J. B. McCreary and Appropriation Bill for New Navy—Members of Second Naval Advisory Board—Standard for Steel for New Ships Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin—Secretary Whitney—Beginning of New Navy, by Charles H. Cramp—Baltimore, Charleston and Yorktown—Purchase of Drawings by Navy Department—Commodore Walker—Premium System—Mr. Whitney’s Views—Premiums Paid—Attack on System—Secretary Tracy—War College Paper—Classifying Bids | 154 | | | V. | Armstrongs—Russian war-ship Construction—Arrival of Cimbria at Bar Harbor—Visit of Wharton Barker to Shipyard—Visit of Captain Semetschkin and Commission to the Yard—Purchase of Ships—Newspaper Accounts—Captain Gore-Jones—Mr. Cramp’s Account of Operations—Europe, Asia, Africa and Zabiaca—Popoff and Livadia—Visit to Grand Duke Constantine—Anniversary Banquet in St. Petersburg of Survivors of Cimbria Expedition—Object of Visit to Russia—Mr. Dunn and Japan—Contract for Kasagi—Jubilee Session of Naval Architects in London—Visit to Russia—Correspondence with Russian Officials—Visit to Armstrongs’—Japanese war-ship Construction—Coming Sea Power—Correspondence with Russian Officials—Invited to Russia—Asked to Bid for war-ships—Our Ministers Abroad—Construction of Retvizan and Variag—Maine | 205 | |
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