List of gun-boats, mortar-boats, transports, tugs, &c., comprising the Western Gun-boat Flotilla, in charge of Captain George D. Wise, &c.-Continued.

Name. Class. Capacity. When How

received. received.

Tonnage.

Sumpter. Wooden gun- 500 June 6, Captured.

boat. 1862.

General ...do... 400 ... Do.

Price.

General ...do... 40 July 3, Do.

Pillow. 1862.

Fair Play. ...do... 300 Sept. 5, Do.

1862.

Alfred ...do... 150 Fe. 28, Do.

Robb. 1862.

Clara Receiving 1.200 June 20, Do.

Dolson. ship. 1862.

Soverign. Store-ship. 800 June 6, Do.

1862.

Victoria. ...do... 500 ...do... Do.

Red Rover. Hospital 1.200 April 3, Do.

steamer. 1862.

H. R. W. Transport. 1.200 June 6, Do.

Hill. 1862.

De Soto. ...do... 600 April 3, Do.

1862.

New ...do... 600 June 6, Do.

National. 1862.

W. H. ...do... 350 ... Purchased.

Brown.

Kentucky. ...do... 500 June 6, Captured.

1862.

Judge Ordnance 700 Feb. 10, Purchased.

Torrence. steamer. 1862.

Great ...do... 700 ...do... Do.

Western.

Salie Transport. 300 Feb. 20, Captured.

Woods. 1862.

Fire Fly. Steam tug- 30 Jan. 1, Purchased

boat. 1862. or built

by United

States.

Spitfire. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Spiteful. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Danntless. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Terror. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Restless. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Jessie ...do... 30 May 5, Do.

Benton. 1862.

Sampson. ...do... 30 Jan. 1, Do.

1862.

Erebus. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Malford. ...do... 30 Feb. 10, Do.

1862.

Intrepid. ...do... 30 Jan. 1, Do.

1862.

Resolute. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

Wonder. ...do... 30 ...do... Do.

38 mortar- Attached to ... December Do.

boats. the fleet. 5, 1861.

Large Used as 4.000 Jan. 1, Do.

wharf- naval 1862.

boat. depot.

RECAPITULATION.

Vessels............................ 45

Mortar-boats....................... 38

Wharf-boat......................... 1

Total tonnage of vessels........... 19,314

Numbers 6. NEW ALBANY, November 7, 1862.

General M. C. MEIGS,

Quartermaster-General, Washington, D. C.:

SIR: I received your dispatch of the 6th instant last evening, asking me to "transmit to your office without delay a report of the vessels composing the ram fleet under my direction, specifying their names and capacity, where and how received, and where and to whom transferred."

I immediately answered by telegraph, giving you the items of information asked for, with a promise of a more detailed report by mail.

Inclosed you will find statement of the cost of each boat, the cost of converting them into rams, and the place where purchased and where fitted up, with a total cost of the fleet as it left here in May last.

I had expected ere this to have made a full report in obedience to the order of the Secretary of War contained in the notice of my appointment as fiscal agent of the fleet, of the 20th of May last; but subsequent to that order he ordered the quartermaster at Cincinnati, who had disbursed the funds there, to send his papers to Washington.

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