NAVAL LOSSES IN PEACE. . ♦ ' disasters to warships cost £2,000,000' IN SEVEN YEARS. A return Issued by the Admiralty shows that between January 1, 1901, and May 27, 1908, 442 of his Majesty's ships and other craft of war met with accidents. Sixteen of the vessels were totally lost, the number including'the loss by fire of the Forte coal dopot, but excluding the loss of the picket boat of tho Edgar, the steamboat and pulling cutter •of the Vernon, the gig of tho Defiance, a submarine mining vessel, and the steam cutter No. 219. Between 1901 and 1906 218 vessels which had been damaged in accidents wero repaired in Government dockyards and sixty in private yards. No figures aro available for the years 1907. and 1908. The following list shows tho cost of tho vessels lost, and gives other particulars' concerning naval accidents during the period named:— Ships in accidents, 442. Ships totally lost, .16. Cost of ships totally lost (including guns and naval ordnance stores), £1,951,974. Lives lost, 408. Pensions paid to dependents of those killed, £2592. Gratuities paid to dependents of those killed,' £3290.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 9
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185Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 9
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