The Department of the Navy

By Rear-Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. Navy
January 1905
Motto: "To improve the stream begin at its source."The U. S. Naval Institute was established about thirty years ago for the avowed purpose of advancing professional and scientific knowledge in ...

A Study of Attacks upon Fortified Harbors

By Lieut.-Comdr. W. L. Rodgers, U.S.N.
January 1905
(Continued from No. 112.)THE CAPTURE OF WEI-HAI-WEI AND THE CHINESE FLEET IN THE JAPANESE WAR IN 1895.A SUCCESSFUL COMBINED ATTACK UNDER MODERN CONDITIONS.The Japanese having conquered Korea and seized an ...

A Proposed New Health Record

By Assistant Surgeon Earle M. Brown, U. S. Navy
January 1905
If the Bureau of Navigation were to abolish the present system of enlistment records and issue an order that an enlistment journal should thereafter be kept on board every ship ...

The Founder Of The New Navy

By Pay Inspector Livingston Hunt, U. S. Navy
January 1905
It may seem superfluous to anyone familiar with the history of the United States navy that an article should be written whose sole reason for being written is to establish ...

Discussion

January 1905
AMERICAN NAVAL POLICY.Prize Essay.Comdr. B. A. FISKE, U. S. Navy.—Two incidental advantages of having specially designed flagships would be:(1) The admiral and his staff would have abundance of room for ...

Professional Notes

Prepared by Professor Philip R. Alger, U. S. Navy
January 1905
SHIPS OF WAR, BUDGETS, AND PERSONNEL.FRANCE.The French budget for 1905 consists of the following ships: Edgard Quinet, armored cruiser of 14,300 tons, 40,000 horsepower, and 24 knots; C 17, probably ...

Book Notices

January 1905
"Military Government and Martial Law," by William E. Birkhimer, L. L. B., Major, General Staff, U. S. Army, 2d Ed. Rev., 1904, 653 pages. Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, Kansas City ...

List of Prize Essays

January 1905
1879.Naval Education. Prize Essay, 1879. By Lieut.-Com. A. D. Brown, U.S.N.Naval Education. First Honorable Mention. By Lieut.-Com. C. F. Goodrich, U.S.N.Naval Education. Second Honorable Mention. By Commander A. T ...

Notice

January 1905
NOTICE.The U. S. Naval Institute was established in 1873, having for its object the advancement of professional and scientific knowledge in the Navy. It now enters upon its thirty-second ...

Officers of the Institute

January 1905
OFFICERS OF THE INSTITUTE. President.Rear-Admiral CASPAR F. GOODRICH, U. S. Navy. Vice-President.Captain W. H. BROWNSON, U. S. Navy. Secretary and Treasurer.Professor P. R. ALGER, U. S. Navy. ...

Special Notice

January 1905
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRIZE ESSAY, 1906.A prize of two hundred dollars, with a gold medal, and a life-membership in the Institute, is offered by the Naval Institute for the best essay ...

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