LOCAL NAVIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 5

LOCAL NAVIES.

. . BETTER TO ASSIST THE 'IMPERIAL FLELT\ ' - > tDy '^clccrSJ l!, '-Press Associo.tlon-Ooprrltnt.l , ) (Roc. November 22, 9.20 p.m.) Ottawa, Kbvember 22. Sir William van Home, cbaiiman of thi Canadian-Paciilc Railway, is opposed fo ib* formation of a Canadian Navy and favours tfra > strengthening of tho British fleet.

GERMAN DREADNOUGHTS. « • NASSATJ'B SISTEES. (By Telegraph-Press ABSocUUon.~OoprrlgMJ , ' Berlin, November 21. < Tho German third and fourth Dreadnoughts, Rhomland and Posen, will be ready for delivery to the German Admiralty next Bpring, and the Dreadnought-cruiser Von dcr Tann m the i summer. ■ , THE RAGE IN DREADNOUGHTS. The growth of tho British and German Navies in vessels of tie Dreadnought typo is strikingly illustrated in tho,nnuexcu table, tho yean prefa\cd being the date of laying down.— BATTLESHIPS. GREAT BRITAIN. GERMANY. , 1905'r' Tons 1905. , Tons. . Dreadnought ... 17,900 — 1900. 1908. Bollorophon ... 18.G00 Nassau 17,679 Temerairo ... 15.600 Westfalen .... 17,679 v Superb ■. . 18,600 ' 1907. > 1907. * Colhngwood A. 19,250 18,307 St. Vincent 19,250 Rhoinland ... 18,807 Vangunid 19,250 s " 1908. 1908. \ , Neptuno 20,250 Helgoland ....19,500 , -i- Ost Friosland... 19,500 l <. Thuringen - .... 19,500 1909.1909. Seven ships ' Three ships. CRmSER'BATTLESHIPS. 1 , < 1905. 1905. Indomitablo .. 17,250 Invinciblo .... 17,250 ' i Indexible 17,250 1907. , s 1907., ; — Von dor Tana 19,000 1908. ' 1908. Indefatigable 19,000 G 18,700 1909. " 1909, One ship 20,000 H 18,700 Total 20 ships Total 13 ships It will thus bo 6een that had'tho British Government decided not to build, tho four con- , " tingent Dreadnoughts, tho British Navy's su- , periority in vessels of that type would nave been only three—l 6to 18,