United States Navy, Bureau of Ordnance
The Bureau of Ordnance of the United States Navy was responsible for procuring, storing, and issuing all ordnance and ordnance equipment used by the navy. It operated ordnance production and storage facilities.
It was preceded by the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, whose mission was divided by an act of Congress on July 5, 1862 (12 Stat.510), transferring the hydrographic functions to the Bureau of Navigation and the ordnance functions to the Bureau of Ordnance.
The Bureau of Ordnance was abolished by an act of August 18, 1959 (73 Stat. 395), establishing the Bureau of Naval Weapons, Department of the Navy.