THE BRITISH NAVY.
SCHEME OF NUCLEUS CREWS
NEW BUILDING PROGRAMME.
LONDON, March 1. Six battleships and six armoured cruisers will comprise the Home Fleet—which will be fully manned—with forty-eight destroyers. The full crews of the cruisers and auxiliaries will all be regularly concentrated at the Nore, while nucleus crews for the Home Fleet will be maintained at other ports, at about three fifths of full strength. The Admiralty will be able to bring them to full strength in a few hours. Naval works loans will be stopped, and the expense will henceforth be included in the annual estimates. Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a memorandum on the reduction of seamen, explains that it will be effected by reducing the boys entering the training vessels. There will be an increase of 1,227 stokers. The new ship-building programme includes a fast armoured cruisers, five ocean-going destroyers, twelve firstclass torpedoers (formerly designated coastal destroyers), and .twelve submarines.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8372, 4 March 1907, Page 5
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157THE BRITISH NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8372, 4 March 1907, Page 5
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