HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
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Copy of a Memorandum in Sir C. Shovell’sown Hand-writing.
For additional impositions -
The proportion of 10,000 men for wear and tearTowards extra repairs -
Ordinary estimate -
£•
130,000
175,000
100,000
300,000
705,000
SalariesHalf-paySuperannuatedMarinesMooringsOrdinary payDitto victualsDocks
Repairs of docks
Register
Out-ports
24,000
28,000
9»°73
55^520
3 2 .559
43.339
19,609
! 5 . 9 2 7
35. 8 48
37,296
800
301,971
The most strenuous efforts were made to effect this grand and essential pur-pose, but a very considerable number of ships, belonging to the royal navy,were, on the conclusion of the war with France, sold, or broken up as unfitfor farther service, not only on account of their crazy condition, but becausemany of them which were naturally sea-worthy had become useless, on accountof that extension of principles with regard to Marine Architecture in France,the only country with whom any future contest could be apprehended. The Bri-tish navy, however, notwithstanding these defalcations, had increased, in the in-terval between the revolution and the conclusion of the century, upwards oftwenty sail of the line, exclusive of more than double that number of frigates.
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