The Memoirs of Charles H. Cramp

Name: The Memoirs of Charles H. Cramp
Author: Buell, Augustus C.

Buell, Augustus C.

Cramp, Charles Henry, 1828-1913; Naval architects -- United States -- Biography

II. Birth—Relatives—High School—Magnetic             39
                Observatory—Note on Davidson—Surf-boats for
                Mexican War—First Propeller Tug
                Sampson—ship-builders of New York and
                Philadelphia—Clipper Ships, 1850—Zenith of
                American Carrying Trade—Crimean War—Cunard
                Line—Libertador—Armored Ships—Board
                Appointed to Take Charge of Appropriation
                to Build Them—Account of New Ironsides—The
                Monitor—Speech of Bishop
                Simpson—Sub-Department of
                Navy—Light-draught Monitors—Sinking of the
                First—Collapse of Sub-Department—Rebuilding
                of Yazoo, Tunxis and
                Others—Miantonomah—Origin of Fast
                Cruisers—Evolution of Modern Marine
                Engineering in this Country


         III. Foreign Commerce in 1865—The Clyde and George    97
                W. Clyde, and Introduction of Compound
                Engines—Commerce of 1870—Merchant
                Marine—Lynch Committee—Mr. Cramp and
                Committee—Lynch Bill—American Steamship
                Company—Visit to British Shipyards—John
                Elder—British Methods—Interchange of
                Methods—Merchant Marine, Continued—Dingley
                Bill—Defects—Act of 1891, Providing
                Registry for Foreign Ships—St. Louis and
                St. Paul—Extract from _Forum_—Remarks on
                Article—Committee of ship-builders and
                Owners—New Bill Introduced by Frye and
                Dingley—North Atlantic Traffic
                Association—New Shipyards—Tactics of North
                Atlantic Traffic Association—Our Navigation
                Laws, _North American Review_—Mr.
                Whitney—Unfriendly Legislation—Mr.
                Whitney’s Letter—Effects of Letter—Mr.
                Cramp’s Letter to Committee of Merchant
                Marine—International Mercantile Marine


          IV. Condition of Navy after Civil War—Admiral       154
                Case’s Fleet—Virginius Scare—Huron, Alert
                and Ranger—Secretary Hunt—First Advisory
                Board—Secretary Chandler—Puritan
                Class—Finished—Steel—Hon. J. B. McCreary
                and Appropriation Bill for New Navy—Members
                of Second Naval Advisory Board—Standard for
                Steel for New Ships Chicago, Boston,
                Atlanta and Dolphin—Secretary
                Whitney—Beginning of New Navy, by Charles
                H. Cramp—Baltimore, Charleston and
                Yorktown—Purchase of Drawings by Navy
                Department—Commodore Walker—Premium
                System—Mr. Whitney’s Views—Premiums
                Paid—Attack on System—Secretary Tracy—War
                College Paper—Classifying Bids

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The Memoirs of Charles H. Cramp

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