THE NAVY ESTIMATES
London, March 2. Six battleships and six armoured cruisers comprise tins Home fleet. They will be fully manned. There will be 48 destroyers with full crews. The cruisers und auxiliaries will all be regularly concentrated at the Nore, wide the nucleus crews for the Home I'ieqt will bo maintained at other. ports at about three-lifths of the strength. The Admiralty will be able to bring them up to the full strength in a few hours.
Naval works loans will be stopped, and the expense henceforth included ra the annual estimates.
Lord Tweedinouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a memorandum on the reduction in the number of seamen, explain that it will be effected by reducing the number of boys entering training vessels.
There will bo an increase of 1227 stokers.
The new ahipbulding programme includes a fast unarmoured cruiser, five ocean-going destroyers, twelve firstclass torpedoera (formerly designated coastal destroyers) and twelve submarines.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 4 March 1907, Page 2
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156THE NAVY ESTIMATES Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 4 March 1907, Page 2
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