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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1889, Vol. 1 of 2 The effective force of the United States Navy, when all the ships now authorized are completed, excluding those which by the process of decay and the Operation of law will by that date have been con damned, will comprise 11 armored vessels, of which only three are battle-ships, and 31 unarmored vessels, making a tetal of 42. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.