Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy for the Year 1890
It thus appears that during the twenty months covered by the pres ent administration nine new ships have been put in commission four, in cluding one monitor, have been advanced to a point where they are just about to go into commission; five are in such a condition that they will shortly be waiting only for their armor; seven have been built from the keel up, of which the Texas and Monterey are nearly ready for launching, and the five cruisers are well advanced; while of the six others pre viously authorized all have been designed and advertised, and all but one, the ram, have been contracted for and are actually under construc tion.
The first five vessels on the list - the Chicago, Yorktown, Petrol, Charles ton, and Baltimore were sufficiently described in the annual report of last year. Since that date all have been actively cruising, and all have justified, under the severe test of actual practice, the high expectations which were then formed of their efficiency as sea. Going men-of-war.
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