QUEEN ELIZABETH'S NAVY
Sir Sidney Lee. in a lecture in London, said that, on a liberal estimate, the British dominion* at the end of Shakes"penre's life, covered less than 140,1)00 square miles, and the subjects of the Crown numbered no more than 5,000,000. The existing British Empire had an area 100 times as great, and for each one of King James l.'s subjects King George had 00. Sea power was a primary condition of colonisation and Empire. The nation owned at Queen Elizabeth's death no more than 2!) ships of 100 tons and upward*. The naval expenditure averaged about £15,000. Tt rose to £BO.OOO at the time, of the Armnda, but subsequently declined to the average. Such figures' look odd beside the £45,000,000 which the fleet costs to-day.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 287, 26 April 1913, Page 10
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128QUEEN ELIZABETH'S NAVY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 287, 26 April 1913, Page 10
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