In the period between March 1883 and March 1896 the United States Navy had cost 110,371,710 dollars. Included in this was the purchase of: 8 battleships, 4 double-turreted monitors, 1 barbette coast-defence turret vessel, 1 harbour defence ram, 2 armoured cruisers, 7 protected cruisers, 20 cruisers, 17 gunboats, 1 dynamite gun vessel, 9 torpedo boats, 1 dispatch boat, and 1 naval cadet practice vessel.