Steamboat Inspection Service, Bureau of Navigation, Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspections, and Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation

Historical Bibliography

Articles

Bennett, Robert Frank. "A Case of Calculated Mischief." Naval Institute Proceedings 102 (Mar 1976), pp. 76-83.

Bland, Schuyler O. "Efficiency, Economy are Twin Advantages of Transfer of Marine Bureau to Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Oct 1946), pp. 8, 10-11.

Brownlee, Edward G. "The Reconstruction of Coasting Schooners From Tonnage Admeasurements." The American Neptune 54, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 115-139.

McLellan, A.G. "Wanted: An American Minister of Marine." Atlantic 113 (June 1914), pp. 796-803.

"The Mercantile Marine, 1914-1921." Board of Trade Journal [London] 108 (Mar 30 1922), p. 347.

"New C.G. Duties [some functions of Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation transferred to Coast Guard]." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1942), p. 36.

"The President's Reorganization Plan." Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council 3 (June 1946), pp. 83-84.

"Steamboat Inspection Service." Nation 101 (Aug 19 1915), p. 221.

Sweet, Edwin F. "The Work of the Steamboat-Inspection Service." Nation’s Business (July 15 1915), pp. 12-13.

Books and Government Publications

Acts of Congress Relating to Steamboats, Collated with the Rolls at Washington. Washington: GPO, 1867.. Washington: GPO, 1867.. Washington: GPO, 1867.

Bates, William M. "The Office of the Secretary of the Treasury," pp. 361-397, & "Bureau of Navigation of the Treasury Department," pp. 398-403, in American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics. Boston: Houghton, 1893.

Brockmann, R. John.  Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838.  Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2002.

"Bureau of Navigation," in United States Bureau of Education. Guide to United States Publications. Washington: GPO, 1918, pp. 112-113.

Field, R.S. "Functions and Activities of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation," in The United States Department of Commerce: How It Serves you on Land and Sea and in the Air. Washington: GPO, 1941.

Myrick, N.S. Steamboat Inspection Service. Report to the National Chamber’s Committee. Washington: Washington Chamer of Commerce of the U.S., 1916.

Short, Lloyd M. The Bureau of Navigation: Its History, Activities, & Organizations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1923.

________. Steamboat-Inspection Service: Its History, Activities, & Organization. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1922.

"Steamboat Inspection Service," in United States Bureau of Education. Guide to United States Publications. Washington: GPO, 1918, pp. 114-115.

"Steamboat Inspection Service," in United States Treasury Department. Reports in Regard to the Transfer of the Bureaus and Divisions of the Merchant Marine in the Treasury Department to the Navy Department. Washington: GPO, 1883, pp. 49-57.

United States Congress. House. Integration of Personnel of Marine Inspection and Navigation Bureau and Customs Bureau into Coast Guard. H. Rp. 622, 80^th Cong., 1^st sess., 1947, Serial 11120.

________.________. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Changing Name of the Steamboat Inspection Service to Marine Inspection Service, January 28 1916, Report to Accompany H.R. 4784. Washington: GPO, 1916.

________.________.________. Hearing . . . on the Bills H.R. 12351 and 18682, to Provide for the Better Security of Lives of Passengers and Crews on Board Vessels of the United States. Washington: GPO, 1910.

________.________.________. Hearings . . . on House Bills 19405, 19406, and 19407, to Increase Salaries . . . in Steamboat Inspection Service, March 21, 1912. Washington: GPO, 1912.

________.________.________. Increase of Salaries of Clerks in the Steamboat-Inspection Service. Hearings . . . on H.R. 4286 and H.R. 5010, Jan. 17, 18, 24, and 31, 1918. Washington: GPO, 1918.

________.________.________. Inspection of Steam Vessels. Hearings on H.R. 24025, May 2, 1912. Washington: GPO, 1912.

United States Department of Commerce and Labor. Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Reports of Bureaus. 1903. Washington: GPO, 1904. [The volume contains the annual reports of the Bureau of Navigation and the Steamboat Inspection Service, which were transferred to the administrative control of the new Department of Commerce and Labor, and was published annually. Each service’s Annual Report was also published separately. The bureaus were merged in 1932, creating the new Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection. The new bureau was renamed in 1935 to the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation.]

________. Condensed History, Duties, and Practical Operation of the Department and its Several Bureaus and Offices, Together with Laws Relating Specifically Thereto, July 1, 1913. "Bureau of Navigation," pp. 49-52, 143-151; "Steamboat–Inspection Service," pp. 163-211. Washington: GPO, 1913.

________. Steamboat Inspection Service. Laws Governing the Steamboat Inspection Service, July 21, 1920. Washington: GPO, 1924.

________.________. Proceedings of the Board of Supervising Inspectors Appointed Under the Act of Congress of August 30, 1852. Baltimore: James Lucas, 1853. [Hereafter published annually] Baltimore: James Lucas, 1853. [Hereafter published annually] Baltimore: James Lucas, 1853. [Hereafter published annually]

________.________. Steamboat Inspection Service Bulletin. No. 1, Nov. 1, 1915. Washington: GPO, 1915. [published monthly through June, 1942 when it was merged with the Coast Guard Bulletin; its title through that time changed with the naming of the Bureau; See the Annual Reports notation above] .

United States Treasury Department. Bureau of Navigation. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation. 1884. Washington: GPO, 1884. [Published annually until 1903 when the report was included in the Secretary of Commerce and Labor’s Annual Report.]

________. Steamboat Inspection Service. Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector-General. Steamboat Inspection Service. 1872. Washington: GPO, 1872. [Published annually until 1903 when the report was included in the Secretary of Commerce and Labor’s Annual Report.]