Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board


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Includes the annual report of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (called 1927-1933, United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation).







Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945


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Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them.".




Where the Fleet Begins


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Traces the modern research and development center from its dual origin when David Taylor and George Melville brought science and technology to the emerging steam-driven steel fleet, through a full century of modernization and several reorganizations. Details the constant work to transform vision into reality, and to keep innovation flowing from cutting-edge science and technology into the Navy's ships and submarines.