Identifier: navalbattlesofam00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826- (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st in the world—and will soonrank higher; there are other great works for merchantvessels on the Lakes and the Mississippi, and at New-ports News, near Hampton Roads. After these comethe works at South Boston and the different establish-ments at New York. The purely naval building-yardsand plants at the New York navy yard, and at Norfolk,are well known ; while the Union Iron Works at SanFrancisco have turned out some of the finest vesselsafloat, both men of war and merchantmen. There arealso such works in Bath, Maine. But the least effect of these great plants is shown intheir production up to this time. They are not onlyeducational to ship and engine builders, but they fostera number of most valuable trades—such as ship-car-penters, plumbers, copper-smiths, joiners, and manyothers. Above all come the naval designers or archi-tects. Men so trained are well paid, and are requiredto turn out the very highest grade of work ; and thuswe are forming a force, at many points of our great
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OUR NEW NAVY. 489 country, fitted, when the time comes (and it must sooncome), to build up our sea-going mercantile marine to anequality with the sister service on the Great Lakes, so asto enable it to carry our products abroad, and bring backthe returns, without depending upon foreign bottoms forthat service. A few years ago there was no place inthis countr) where a young man could go t® learn thebusiness of designing and building iron vessels—nowthere are many such places—and they are constantly in-creasing in number. MACHINERY. Not the least wonder of our day is the improvementin the machinery of steam-vessels of all kinds. The engineers department of a first-class cruiser orbattle-ship is a bewildering and wonderful sight to onenot accustomed to it. The complicated engines, withtheir numerous cylinders, which use the steam over andover, seem almost too delicate, and too like a fancy crea-tion, to be capable of driving the propellers at such a rateas they do. Instead of the ru

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