Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean PostRainey, Thomas
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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
Rainey, Thomas
Mail steamers; Steam-navigation
STORE-SHIPS.
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Name. |Rate.| Where | When
| | built. | built.
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Relief, | 6 | Philadelphia, | 1836
Supply, | 4 | Purchased, | 1846
Warren, | | Boston, | 1826
Fredonia, | 4 | Purchased, | 1846
Release, | 2 | Purchased, | 1855
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The United States Navy has 64 Captains, 96 Commanders, 311
Lieutenants, 69 Surgeons, 43 Passed Assistant Surgeons, 37
Assistant Surgeons, 64 Pursers, 24 Chaplains, 12 Mathematicians,
24 Masters, 24 Passed Midshipmen, 30 Midshipmen, and 145
Probationary Midshipmen and Students.--_Taken from the Navy
Register of 1857._
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