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National steam Navies.

England has fifty-two steam line-of-battle ships, nine steam frigates, a hundred and fifty-six steam sloops, and two hundred steam gunboats. France has thirty-three steam line-of-battle ships, twenty-eight steam frigates, a hundred and twenty-nine steam sloops-of-war, two hundred steam gunboats. The United States have only eighteen or twenty vessels available for the new tactics of the sea, and not yet a single steam line-of-battle ship.

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