The British Navy.
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF THE ESTIMATES. (I'KK I'KKSS ASSOCIATION). London, March 16. Tho Government has increased the Navy Estimates b.r three millions. Part of the programme for the next five years is to provide 7,000 additional seamen, and to build seven bt-ttleships of tho Majestic type, to steam Ih knots ; six cruis6rs on tho lines of H.M.S. Talbot, to steam 19 knots ; and two sloops of war in addition to tlioye already boing built. A sum of £250 000 is to bo dovotod to fortifyiug tho Home dockyards. Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, implies that additional cruisers will bo built later 00, Tbe goneral opinion of the press is that the proposals of the Government aro fairly adequate. The Admiralty has orderod the obsolete typo of guns which are etorod for tho uso of merchant cruisers, in ca>o of outbreak of war, to be replaced by quick linns euns of tha lutest patterns
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 266, 17 March 1894, Page 2
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157The British Navy. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 266, 17 March 1894, Page 2
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