DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

The Bureau of Navigation was established by the Act of July 5,

1862.

This Bureau issues and enforces the orders of the Secretary of the Navy to individual officers. It has general supervision over the training and education of line officers and enlisted men, and over the enlistment, assignment, and discharge of enlisted personnel. It submits to the Secretary questions of naval discipline, rewards and punishments, and reviews the disciplinary features of all decisions of courts-martial and courts of inquiry involving personnel. It is charged with the administration of the Hydrographic Office and the Naval Observatory; with the supervision of all ocean and lake surveys undertaken by the Navy Department; and with the organization and supervision of the Naval Reserve.

The recurrent statistical data published by the Bureau of Navigation relate to the personnel of the Navy. They are included in the annual report of the chief of the Bureau. The Bureau also issues annually the Navy Register, and it has published a statement of the officers and enlisted men of the Navy who lost their lives during the World War, from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918.

PERSONNEL STATISTICS.

Two tables in the annual report of the Bureau relate to officers only. One of them shows, by rank, for the fiscal year of the report, the number of resignations (of regular officers), the number of disenrollments (of reserve officers), and the number of dismissals (of both groups). The other is a statement of the commissioned personnel of the United States Naval Reserve Force, by rank, grade, and class.

All other statements and tables in the report relate to enlisted men only. Of these, several statements show the strength of the Navy and of the Naval Reserve Force on the last day of the fiscal year of the report and on the last day of the preceding year, and also certain analyses of enlistments, enrollments, discharges and desertions (for each of the two branches of the service). The several remaining statements and tables give, for the fiscal year of the report, the citizenship, nativity, residence (State or country), color, term

of enlistment, length of naval service, marital condition, and age distribution (by broad groupings) of the enlisted men in the Navy and in the Naval Reserve Force.

THE NAVY REGISTER AND THE NAVY DIRECTORY.

The Navy Register is published annually. It gives the name, rank, date of rank, service history, State and date of birth and of appointment, and present duty or station of every officer in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.

The Navy Directory is a bimonthly publication. It gives the name, rank, and place of duty or station of every officer in the Navy, officers of the Naval Reserve Corps on active duty, Marine Corps, officers of the Marine Corps Reserve on active duty, and of foreign officers serving with the Navy. It lists the fleets, vessels, stations, yards, etc., giving the names and grades of the officers attached to each. And it contains other information of a miscellaneous character relating to the personnel and floating plant of the Navy.

NAVAL FATALITIES DURING THE WORLD WAR.

The list of officers and enlisted men who lost their lives in the Naval service during the World War, from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918, is alphabetically arranged, and shows the rank or grade, place of death, cause of death, and the name, relationship, and the address of next of kin, and the State from which appointed or the place of enlistment of every deceased officer and enlisted man.

SERVICE STATEMENTS.

The Bureau of Navigation on October 31, 1921, completed the preparation of the service statements of every officer and enlisted man in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserves and also the Coast Guard, who served in the United States Navy during the War with Germany. These statements were prepared on cards and furnished to the proper officers in the several States, Territories, and insular possessions of the United States in accordance with the provisions of the act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. The statements showed the name, service number, place of enlistment or enrollment, date of enlistment, age at entrance, rating, home address, places of service, date discharged, and rating at discharge of each person reported on. Any information of special interest was shown under the caption "remarks." The data shown on these statements were taken from the service records kept by the Bureau.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

The Bureau of Construction and Repair was established by the Act of July 5, 1862, entitled An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States.

The Bureau of Construction and Repair is responsible for the structural strength and stability of all ships built for the Navy. It has supervision of all that relates to designing, building, fitting, and preparing the hulls of ships, and their turrets, spars, capstans, windlasses, steering gear, and ventilating apparatus. After consultation with the Bureau of Ordnance and according to the requirements of that Bureau, it superintends the design, construction, and installation of independent ammunition hoists, and the installation of permanent fixtures and appurtenances of ammunition hoists on board ship, as well as the placing and securing of armor, and the permanent fixtures of the armament and its accessories. It is responsible for the installation of turret guns, turret mounts, and turret ammunition hoists, and such other mounts as require simultaneous structural work in connection with their installation or removal. The Bureau is also charged with the care and preservation of ships not in commission, the docking of ships, and of the operation and cleaning of drydocks. It has charge of the manufacture of anchors and cables, the supplying and fitting of rope, cordage, rigging, sails, awnings and other canvas, flags and bunting, and the supplying, installing, and repairing of galley ranges, steam cookers, and other permanent galley fittings. It has charge of designing and providing gas masks and protection against gas warfare.

The Annual Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair contains several detailed statements of a statistical nature. These relate to contracts awarded for vessels, to vessels dropped from the Navy, to vessels added to the Navy, to aircraft production, and to the progress of work on vessels under construction. Another publication of a statistical nature prepared by the Bureau and of importance to the Naval Service, is the Ships' Data Book. This publication is an inventory of all United States naval vessels— battleships, monitors, cruisers, mine layers, destroyers, submarines, patrol vessels, auxiliary vessels, naval aircraft, and district craft.

The particulars shown for each vessel include, as a rule, the name of the craft, its official number, its dimensions, draft, displacement, speed, fuel capacity, and rig, and the calibers of the guns mounted; when, where, and by whom built, the character and types of the generators, engines, and other equipment installed, the number of officers and men detailed, and other information of this character.

This publication is not compiled for any stated period. The time intervening between issues varies from one to two years depending

upon the number of changes occurring. The current issue is, however, amended from time to time.

The material used in the compilation of this volume is furnished by the several bureaus and divisions of the Navy Department. It is correlated and published by the Bureau of Construction and Repair in an edition of 2,000 copies, which are distributed to the principal naval ships and stations, to chiefs of the divisions and bureaus of the Navy Department, and to libraries, exchanges, etc.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

A Bureau of Provisions and Clothing was established by the Act of August 31, 1842. Its name was changed to Bureau of Supplies and Accounts by the Act of July 19, 1892.

The duties of the Bureau include the purchase, reception, storage, care, custody, transportation, shipment, issue, and accounting for all supplies and property of the Naval Establishment except medical supplies (but including their purchase) and supplies for the Marine Corps.

The Paymaster General of the Navy is the chief of this bureau. The Annual Report of the Paymaster General of the Navy, an octavo volume of over 2,000 pages, is published in an edition of 1,000 copies, which is distributed principally to the various navy yards, stations, and administrative bureaus of the Navy Department. Practically the entire report is devoted to detailed statements relating to the finances and accounts of the Navy.

The following is a list of these statements taken from the report for the fiscal year 1920:

COSTS.

Cost of the Navy, fiscal year of the report.

'Total cost of the new Navy" (i. e., since 1884).

New construction.

Fleet maintenance and operation.

Fleet maintenance-repairs.

Fleet maintenance-alterations.

Fleet maintenance-repairs to equipage.

Shore station improvements.

Shore station maintenance.

General administration.

Industrial yard expense, by accounts and activities.

Industrial yard shop expense, by shops.

Industrial yard general expense, by activities.

Industrial yards-ratio of expense labor to productive labor, by shops.

Industrial yard shop expense, by accounts.

Expenditure by yards and titles.

PROPERTY INVESTMENT.

Total property investment of the Navy.

Property investment and total maintenance-ships.
Property investment and total maintenance-shore stations.
Appraised value and reproduction cost of industrial plants.
Property investment-stores.

SUPPLY ACCOUNTS AND OPERATIONS.

Total stores operations and balances.

Balances by classes.

Supply department operations.

Naval supply account, afloat and ashore.

Appropriation purchases account, afloat and ashore.

Used material account.

Reserve material, Navy account.

Provisions account, afloat and ashore.

Ship's store account, afloat.

Clothing account, afloat and ashore.

Medical stores.

Manufacturing account.

Marine Corps stores.

FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS STATEMENTS.

Equipage account, afloat.

Ship's store profits fund.

Clothing and small stores fund.

Midshipmen's store fund.

Appropriation balances.

Appropriation accounts, by titles.

Appropriations for the new Navy, February 22, 1883, to the end of the fiscal year of the report.

Summary of Naval appropriation acts, February 22, 1883, to the end of the fiscal year of the report.

Summary of miscellaneous appropriations for the new Navy, February 22, 1883, to the end of the fiscal year of the report.

Summary of all appropriations for the new Navy, February 22, 1883, to the nd of the fiscal year of the report.

Sales of condemned property.

Purchasers of condemned property.

Purchases of vessels since April 6, 1917.

Sales of vessels purchased since April 6, 1917.

Trial balance, General Ledger.

In addition to the statistical analyses appearing in the annual reort, the Bureau compiles many other statistical statements, relating to Navy property and finances, for the information of the administrative officials of the Navy Department and for Congress.