A large portion of the vessels _built_ were intended to replace others which had been lost, or were so decayed as to be broken up.
But it may be well to add here, the actual supplies voted for the sea-service, and for wear and tear, and the extraordinary expenses in building and repairing of ships from 1800 to 1815.
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Expenses| For entire | | Year | and tear of |for building,| sea-service.

| | | Ships.

|repairing,&c.| | |---------------------------------------------------| | 1800 | L4,350,000 | L772,140 | L13,619,079 | | 1801 | 5,850,000 | 933,900 | 16,577,037 | | 1802 | 3,684,000 | 773,500 | 11,833,571 | | 1803 | 3,120,000 | 901,140 | 10,211,378 | | 1804 | 3,900,000 | 948,520 | 12,350,606 | | 1805 | 4,680,000 | 1,553,690 | 15,035,630 | | 1806 | 4,680,000 | 1,980,830 | 18,864,341 | | 1807 | 5,070,000 | 2,134,903 | 17,400,337 | | 1808 | 5,070,000 | 2,351,188 | 18,087,544 | | 1809 | 3,295,500 | 2,296,030 | 19,578,467 | | 1810 | 3,295,500 | 1,841,107 | 18,975,120 | | 1811 | 3,675,750 | 2,046,200 | 19,822,000 | | 1812 | 3,675,750 | 1,696,621 | 19,305,759 | | 1813 | 3,549,000 | 2,822,031 | 20,096,709 | | 1814 | 3,268,000 | 2,086,274 | 19,312,070 | | 1815 | 2,386,500 | 2,116,710 | 19,032,700 | -- ------------------------------------------------------------- It appears from this table that the appropriations for the service, during the first fifteen years of the present century, amounted to a little less than _ninety millions_ of dollars per annum; and for the wear and tear of ships, and "the extraordinary expenses in building and repairing ships, &c.," the annual appropriations amounted to near _thirty millions_.
Our own naval returns are also so imperfect that it is impossible to form any very accurate estimate of the relative cost of construction and repairs of our men-of-war.

The following table, compiled from a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in 1841, (Senate Doc.No.223, 26th Congress,) will afford data for an approximate calculation:-- ====================================================================== Name of No.