Hampton Roads, Va. (naval operating base):

Toward water-front improvements and permanent improve-
ments to station, including piers, bulkheads, filling, grading,
etc., act July 11, 1919---

Repairs to north breakwater, act July 1, 1922.
Dredging, to continue, act Jan. 22, 1923-

Indianhead, Md. (naval proving grounds):

Improvements to powder factory, act July 1, 1918-
Railroad connection, act July 1, 1918.

Keyport, Wash. (naval torpedo station):

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$584.77 3, 780.00 21. 71

Torpedo storehouse extension, acts July 1, 1922, and May
28, 1924-

Pier No. 1 extension, act May 28, 1924-
Fresh-water system, extension, act May 28, 1924-

Key West, Fla. (naval station):

Station improvements, act July 11, 1919-
For the development of a submarine base, to complete, act
July 12, 1921.

Mare Island, Calif. (Navy Yard):

Improvements to central power plants, act July 12, 1924.----
Rebuilding dikes, wharves, and quay walls, and maintenance
dredging (limit of cost $2,800,000), to complete, acts July 1,
1922, Jan. 22, 1923, and May 28, 1924-

Dredging equipment, act May 28, 1924-
Mooring dolphins, replacement, act May 28, 1924-
Plant renewals, naval coal depot, Tiburon, Calif., act May 28,

1924.

Naval ammunition depot, magazine and shell house, to com-
plete, act July 1, 1922-

Melville, R. I. (naval coal depot), improvements to water supply,

including purchase of land, act Aug. 29, 1916

Newport, R. I. (naval training station building), sea-wall improve

ments, act July 1, 1918

New York, N. Y. (navy yard):

Central power plant improvements, acts July 1, 1918 and May
28, 1924-

Sprinkler system, building No. 4, act May 28, 1924

Improvements, central power plant and distributing system,

Norfolk, Va. (navy yard):

act July 1, 1918

Auxiliary fitting-out cranes, act July 11, 1919

Replace caisson, aisson, Dry

Dock No. 1, act May 28, 1924

Naval hospital, purchase of land for spur track, act June 4,
1920--

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (naval station):

Substation near dry dock, act July 11, 1919_...

6. 19

9, 123. 95

1, 925. 23 1,000.00

13,000.00

2, 868.96

8, 745. 65

751.86

250, 945. 36 150,000.00 28,000.00

10, 940.00

1,984.98

15,000.00

6.49

251.99

13, 500.00

870.60

1, 056. 25

4, 160.00

450.00

Power plant extension, acts June 4, 1920, and May 28, 1924-51, 137.00

Marine railway, to complete, acts June 4, 1920 and May 28,

1, 293. 35

Port Royal, S. C. (marine recruiting station): For additional com-
pensation for property taken over under act July 1, 1918, act
Mar. 6, 1920-

Portsmouth, N. H. (navy yard): Electric capstans for dry dock, act
May 28, 1924.

Puget Sound, Wash. (navy yard):

Central power plant and distributing systems, improvements,
acts July 1, 1922, and May 28, 1924---
For grading, filling, and sea-wall construction, act July 12,
1921...

Pattern-shop extension, act July 12, 1921

Additional storage facilities, act July 12, 1921

Pier No. 4, extension, act July 1, 1922

Repair and fitting out pier (limit of cost, $1,190,000), act May 28, 1924

1922.

200.00

Dredging, act July 1, 1922

Naval ammunition depot, fuse and detonator house, act July 1,

Quantico, Va. (marine barracks), acquisition of land, act July 1, 1918..

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (naval station), refrigerating plant, ex

tension, act May 28, 1924

San Diego,

Diego, Calif. (naval fuel depot):

250,000.00

41, 480. 07

3, 500.00

STEPS TAKEN AND PROJECTED TO EFFECT ECONOMIES WITH THE VIEW
TO BETTERING PHYSICAL CONDITION OF FLEET

DECOMMISSIONING OF VESSELS

Since the end of the fiscal year 1924 the following ships have been
placed out of commission:

Capella (cargo ship), Denebola (destroyer tender), Newport News (cargo ship),
Patuzent (tug), Pyro (ammunition ship), Proteus (collier), Prometheus (fleet
repair ship), Tadousac (tug).

The following ships will be placed out of commission before July
1,1925:

Bridgeport (destroyer tender); Patapsco (tug); R-22, R-23, R-24, R-26, R-27,
N-1, N-2, N-3 (submarines); Rappahannock (cargo ship); Pensacola (station ship).

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In most cases these vessels are placed out of commission due to the necessity for the personnel on ships newly constructed and being placed in commission.

Older submarines are placed out as new ones are completed and commissioned.

The destroyer tenders Dobbin and Whitney have better facilities for repairing destroyers and have sufficient speed to accompany the fleet.

The fleet repair ship Prometheus has been placed out of commission, as the Medusa, especially built for a fleet repair ship, is to replace her.

During the fiscal year 1926 the Rainbow and Savannah (submarine tenders), will be replaced by the Holland, now building, and the Argonne, being converted. The Rainbow and Savannah have neither the facilities, the accommodations, nor the speed for submarine tenders.

The replacement of these older ships by new ships, better adapted for service in the fleet, not only improves the fleet as a whole but enables the fleet to be run more economically.

NAVY YARD MANAGEMENT

Navy Department General Orders relating to the organization and administration of navy yards assign the mission and lay down general principles of management, but the various commandants are permitted full initiative in formulating plans for the efficient and economical execution of the details involved.

This has resulted in the employment of different methods for the accomplishment of similar tasks.

The department is making a comprehensive study of this matter with a view of ascertaining the most economical and efficient method in each case with the purpose of thereby increasing the economy of operation at all yards.

Graphic charts are issued monthly showing comparative data of navy yards. The following tables giving comparisons between the years 1923 and 1924 show a marked reduction in overhead rates. This is indicative of more economical management:

To what extent the "Overhead charts" influenced the above statistics can not be determined, but from the comments and suggestions received from the several yards from time to time in regard to these charts it is to be assumed that they have caused closer scrutiny of cost statistics at all yards reflected on them.

A contrast of the fiscal years 1923 and 1924 in regard to labor expenditures reported from the yards noted is given below, showing the percentages of the total labor expended for the purposes shown as compiled from the graphic charts "Shipyard opertion, labor." This indicates that a larger part of the money allotted to navy yards was available for productive work.

A direct economy has been effected in the revisions of power and shop expense forms of the monthly expense statements. The former while not reducing the number of items shown nor the number of papers required, makes a statement much more easily prepared and comprehended. The latter has been reduced from two sheets per shop to one sheet per shop with the consequent economy.

Machine tools and shop equipment reserved from dismantled Navy-owned plants and those received from the United States Army Ordnance Salvage Board have been a valuable asset. From this stock suitable tools and equipment have been selected to fill requisitions and requests in lieu of purchase, at the appraised values of the tools assigned as follows:

From July 1, 1923, to June 1, 1924:

United States Naval Research Laboratory, Bellevue, D. C $20, 451

Navy yards and stations.

72, 559

United States naval air stations_

7, 513

It would be difficult to estimate the actual saving to the Navy in work value from these tools. They have all been assigned where urgently needed, and in view of limited appropriations many could not have been purchased. However, if funds had been available to purchase, the total cost would have exceeded the above amount by at least 30 per cent.

By keeping close supervision on returned costs, economies have been effected in the manufacture of material at navy yards. The has been accomplished by obtaining estimates from various yards