MAY 15TH
Admiral Du Pont wrote Benjamin F. Isherwoof, Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering regarding the naval floating machine shops at Port Royal, SC: "This establishment is a most essential and important accesion to the efficiency of this squadron.... as the wants of the steamers now by long service so frequently requiring repairs.
In this connection I would call the attention of the Bureau to the necessity of sending out a small store vessel in which the materials requited for work at the machine shop, now constantly increasing since the arrival of the ironclads, could be stored, and that some person be carefully selected to take charge thereof.
The machine shop, which the Bureau is aware is in two old hulks, one of which is taken up entirely as a workshop and for quarters; and the other is in too decayed a condition to be suitable for the purpose of stowage."
In other words, keep the supplies coming, put someone with knowledge in charge and please send another ship for the purpose.
Old B-Runner
MAY 16TH
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