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3 Third Rates

4 Fourth Rates

TSl Total Sailing

TSc Total Screws

TIC Total Iron Clads.

TSW Total Side Wheels.

TV Total No. of Vessels in the U.S. Navy

Year.	SAILING VESSELS					STEAM VESSELS															TV
	1	2	3	4	TSl	Screws					Iron Clads					Side Wheels
						1	2	3	4	TSc	1	2	3	4	TIC	1	2	3	4	TSW
1862	7	10	19	65	101	5	16	29	69	119	5	5	37	6	53	2	19	40	51	112	383
1863	4	7	12	83	106	6	15	24	96	141	4	6	37	6	53	2	10	52	85	149	449
1864	3	5	16	84	108	12	35	37	129	213	9	5	56	4	74	2	16	52	152	222	617
1865	3	6	16	84	109	23	32	42	168	265	3	6	6	56	71	3	8	56	160	236	681
1866	1	6	16	19	42	23	31	17	64	135	3	7	6	53	69	3	4	47	20	74	320
1867	2	6	15	15	38	20	18	15	53	106	3	6	6	47	62	3	4	43	17	67	273
1868	6	9	12	5	32	19	21	17	43	100	7	4	41	3	55	3	4	23	12	42	229
1869	6	9	11	5	31	19	21	16	40	96	7	4	38	3	52	3	1	11	9	24	203
1870	. .	2	17	11	30	5	24	19	40	88	. .	6	5	40	51	. .	4	1	12	17	186
1871	. .	2	17	10	29	3	24	18	42	87	. .	4	6	40	50	. .	4	. .	7	11	177

The following Table, prepared from the official Navy Register for January of each year, by Capt. G. H. Preble, U.S. Navy, exhibits the number of midshipmen graduates, and midshipmen attached to the Naval Academy, with their classification and the number of resignations, deaths, and dismissals, from 1851 to 1871, inclusive.

[TABLE VIII. Midshipmen in Naval Academy.]