150 Years of Service on the Seas: (1830-1946)Department of the Navy, Oceanographic Office, 1982 |
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1st Class Boy Annual Report Bureau of Navigation Cadwalader Ringgold Callao Cape Capt Captain charge Charles Wilkes Chart Construction chronometers Coast Survey Commander deep-sea sounding Depot depth discharged at Oahu division of Sailing drographic edition ernment Printing Office fathoms George graphic Office gravity Henry Hydro instrument Island James John Rodgers Joined at Callao Joined at Oahu Joined at Rio Joined at Sydney Joined at Valparaiso Joined Vincennes Joseph June Key West Landsman Lieut Lieutenant marine Mate Matthew Fontaine Maury Maury Meinesz Mississippi National Archives nautical Naval Navy Hydrographic Office Observatory ocean oceanographic Ord'y Seaman Pilot Charts PLATE Porpoise Powhatan Quarter-Master Rear Admiral Relief Ringgold run at Oahu run at Rio run at Sydney Sailing Directions Secretary served the cruise Sheet ships sonic Steward submarine Susquehanna Thomas tion track U.S. Exploring Expedition U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Hydrographic United Valparaiso vessels Washington William
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Page 14 - That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to...
Page 219 - World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe. By the same Author.
Page 14 - ... Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of the United States, and for the benefit and use of navigators generally.
Page 9 - Navy, and all of the duties of said bureau shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and its orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such.
Page 131 - States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and [the] South seas, and for that purpose to employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful...
Page 138 - NNE I gave the name of Grinnell, in honor of the head and heart of the man in whose philanthropic mind originated the idea of this expedition, and to whose munificence it owes its existence.
Page 224 - The Methods and Results of the Survey of the West Coast of Lower California by the Officers of the USS Ranger during the season of 1889 and 1890.
Page 21 - In order to extend the full benefit of the co-operation of this office with all foreign offices to the merchant marine, branch offices are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Francisco. These branches are in charge of officers detailed from the main office. Each branch is supplied with charts covering the navigable waters of the globe, nautical works, light lists, and sailing directions, all corrected to date. The plan has the double advantage of placing within...
Page 9 - An act to alter and amend the several acts for establishing a Navy Department by adding thereto a Board of Commissioners.
Page 103 - Ibs. (the remaining 7,300 fathoms, composed of the smaller sizes, Nos. 10 and 13, being stowed away as spare wire,) carefully measured and marked with small copper labels, was linked into one piece, and wound upon an iron cylinder, 3 feet in length and 20 inches in diameter, — the largest-sized wire being wound first, so as to be uppermost in sounding. Two swivels were placed near the lead, and one at each thousand fathoms, to meet the danger of twisting off by the probable rotary motion in reeling...