Navy (shipbuilding and dockyard transactions, 1872-3). Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 1 May 1874;--for; return "of balance sheet and detailed accounts of shipbuilding and other dockyards transactions in the financial year 1872-3; showing for each of the home dockyards, and for the foreign yards, &c., the amount paid out of the votes for dockyard services, as per statement of surpluses and deficits; and its appropriation to the building, completion, and maintenance of Her Majesty's ships; together with accounts showing also the value of land and buildings, and stock of timber and stores at the beginning and end of the year in the home yards and those foreign yards from which expense accounts have been received, and the amount received and expended in connection with other services than those provided for in the dockyard votes (prepared, as far as practicable, in pursuance of the recommendation of the Select Committee on Admiralty moneys and accounts of the 27th day of July 1868)." [electronic resource].