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and their condition, 499 ; resignation of offi- 

 cers, 500 ; available force of ships, 500 ; scenes 

 at Norfolk, 500 ; preparations for the blockade, 

 501 ; vessels in service July 4th, 501 ; increase 

 of force, 502 ; iron-clad ship, 502 ; list of ves- 

 sels built, 503; La Gloire, French iron-.clad 

 ship, 503 ; English iron-clad ships, 504 ; the 

 Achilles, 504 ; the Warrior, 504 ; letter of M. 

 Kay, 504 ; plans offered to Congress, 504 ; the 

 examiners, 504 ; their advice, 505 ; plans ac- 

 cepted, 505 ; the Monitor, 505-507 ; her trip 

 to Fortress Monroe, 507 ; effect of the shot of 

 the Mearimac on her, 507 ; Stevens's Battery, 

 508 ; description, 508 ; drawings of, 509 ; cost, 

 510; further details, 510; naval skirmishes 

 during the year, 511, 512. 



II. Its organization, 604 ; officers, 604 ; ves- 

 sels, 604; squadrons, 604; iron-clad or armored 

 ships, 604 ; necessity of armor recognized, 605 ; 

 progress in its application, 605 ; the revolving 

 turret or cupola, 606 ; earliest American iron- 

 clads, 607; the first-class monitors, 607; the 

 Passaic, details of, 608 ; improvements in work- 

 ing the new monitors, 609; guns discharged 

 within the turret, 609 ; recoil, 609 ; men, 609 ; 

 bed of the turret water-tight, 610 ; experience 

 in battle, 610 ; results at Charleston, 610 ; loss 

 of the original Monitor, 611 ; new life-raft, 

 611; second and third class monitors, 611; 

 Dictator and Puritan, 611 ; New Ironsides, 612 ; 

 Galena, 612 ; Roanoke, 612 ; Keokuk, 613 ; 

 Dunderberg, 613; the Benton gunboat, 614; 

 Essex gunboat, 614; the Tuscumbia gunboat, 

 614; other gunboats and rams, 614; recent 

 English and French armored vessels, 614; 

 manufacture and application of armor-plates, 

 615, 616 ; aspects of the armor question chang- 

 ing, 617; destructive power of projectiles, 617, 

 618 ; resistance of iron plates, 619 ; recent ex- 

 periments with modern heavy ordnance, 620, 

 621 ; practical qualifications as to the relative 

 efficiency of guns and armor, 622 ; qualities of 

 inclined or vertical armor, 622; the question 

 of the kind of armor and of backing, 623 ; ex- 

 tent of armor and plans of armored vessels, 

 624 ; best construction of hull for armored 

 ships, 625 ; preserving the bottoms of armored 

 vessels, 626 ; rams, 626 ; coast and harbor de- 

 fences, 627 ; conclusions, 627. 



III. Number and capacity of vessels, 663 ; 

 aggregate armament and tonnage, 663 ; distri- 

 bution of fleets, 663 ; number of seamen, 663 ; 

 deficiency, 663 ; test of iron-clads, 664; opinion 



of Commodore Worden, 664 ; do. of Commo- 

 dore Ammen, 664 ; do. of Commodore Rodgers, 

 664 ; do. of Commodore Fairfax, 664 ; do. of 

 Engineer Stimers, 664 ; report on injuries to 

 the Passaic, 665 ; report of Admiral Dahlgren, 

 665 ; New Ironsides, 665 ; monitors, 665 ; Du- 

 pont on the efficiency of the iron-clads, 666 ; 

 Admiral Porter on the efficiency of the iron- 

 clads, 666; do. Admiral Goldsborough, 666; 

 do. Commodore Rodgers, 667. 



IV. Blockade, 558; how planned, 558; 

 Wilmington, 559; various classes of vessels 

 constructed, 559 ; their peculiarities, 559 ; com- 

 parative statement of the naval force, 660 ; 

 vessels constructed, 560 ; iron-clads, 560 ; ex- 

 periments with coal and petroleum, 560 ; school 

 for boys, 560 ; number of vessels captured by 

 the squadron, 561 ; proceeds of the sale of con- 

 demned property, 561 ; estimates and expenses 

 of the navy in the last fiscal year, 561 ; men in 

 service, 561. 



V. Squadrons and commanders, 596 ; opera- 

 tions of the North Atlantic squadron, 597; 

 second attack on Fort Fisher, 597; diagram 

 showing the position of the vessels and the 

 lines of fire, 598 ; declaration of Admiral Por- 

 ter, 597; the gunboat Eolus at Fayett<jville, 

 597 ; vessels blown up by the enemy at Rich- 

 mond, 597 ; operations of the South Atlantic 

 squadron, 597; destruction of the Columbia, 

 597; occupation of Georgetown, etc., 597; 

 sinking of the monitor Patapsco, 597 ; destruc- 

 tion of the Dai Ching, 597; the Harvest Moon 

 sunk, 599 ; operations of the East Gulf squad- 

 ron, 599 ; operations at Mobile, 599 ; surrender 

 of Confederate vessels in the Tombigbee, 599 ; 

 destruction of the Confederate ram W. H. 

 Webb, 599 ; the iron-clad ram Stonewall, 599 ; 

 escape from Ferrol and Lisbon, 600; at Ha- 

 vana, 600; surrender, 600; the Shenandoah, 

 600; at Madeira, 600; at Melbourne, 600; in 

 the North Pacific, 600 ; return to the Mersey, 

 600 ; surrender, 600 ; results of the operations 

 of Southern cruisers, 600 ; vessels captured or 

 destroyed by United States cruisers, 600, 601 ; 

 value of vessels and property captured or de- 

 stroyed, 601; reduction of the home squad- 

 rons, 601 ; foreign squadrons reestablished or 

 strengthened, 601 ; navy statistics, 601 ; League 

 Island station for iron-clads, 602 ; Mound City 

 station, 602; Algiers, 602; description of the 

 ram Dunderberg, 602; tabular statement of 

 dimensions and power, 602 ; comparative 



