THE ROYAL NAVY
EXPANSION IN WARTIME
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, November 11
A considerable expansion in the personnel of the Royal Navy has taken place since the outbreak of war. This has been necessitated partly by the commissioning of ships in the Reserve Fleet for which normally no peace-time complement existed, and by the large number of auxiliaries joining the Fleet.
Before the rearmament of the British Navy the personnel was 92,000, but by April, 1940, it is estimated that it will have risen to 131,000, excluding emergency war expansion.
It is expected thait the expansion during the next twelve months will be by at least 58.000 men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 8
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