The German Navy.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2909, 28 May 1888, Page 3

The German Navy.

A Brench journalist, M. Levins,

submits the following pertinsnt judgefment of the present strength of the German Navy to bis seafaring readers, whether of the mercantile or armed navy of his own nationality:—ln 1870 tho German Federation could not claim a navy worthy of tabulated rank, but she will bo able to show a formidable floating force ready for the next European disturbance, Her vessels if scant in number, a'vo at least fully equipped and suituble ariued for the purposo of toier several ratings, If a naval war should supervene, the German Empire can now show an ocean line-of-battle composed of twenty-three heavy armorclads, and 150 gun or torpedo vessels, singly or of combined offence. The Kaiser Wilhelm, or rather Prince Bismarck, can orker out thirteen firstclass battle ships between the dates of 1874 to the present time, whioh are liGcesscrily of old type, but tho other six vessels must be accepted as formidable adversaries. Tho German torpedo fleet, by all accounts, is immensely superior in destructive efficiency and trained manning to tho tiny destructors of the British navy. The Benlin

, .Admirrlte has also tho command of «r eight protected ciuisers, besides four '• other half-shielded cruisers, finally the list includes six newly-built cruisers that can make their fifteen to eighteen knotc sn hour, The excitement in the Cherbourg arsenals and dockyards, to which we have repeatedly called your attention, will probably hinge upon the naval situation oi Germany, —Broad Arrow,