BRITISH NAVY.
SIXTEEN VESSELS TO BE PLACED ICI RESERVE. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.15 p.m., Ootober 15. London, Ootober 15.
The Standard makes the startling statement that the Admiralty, from motives of economy, intend before 1907 to place six Majesties and two Formidables in reserve, with the nucleus of crews aboard, and eight Royal Sovereigns in reserve without crews. The men liberated will go to strengthen the crews of Ihs torpedo flotillas and live in barracks.
Reoeived rz.53 a.m., Oct 16. Earlier newspaper statements indicated that some reduction of the Mediterranean fleet was owing to the entente, but that drafting vessels ibeoce and elsewhere to Home waters was intended to strengthen the equadroD. The Standard itself anticipates an offioiai denial of information or modification of the intention now alleged.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1906, 16 October 1906, Page 2
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