The World's Warships

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 15

The World's Warships

A German naval annfcial gi\ i\s details and plans of all the world's warships, with a lange amount of information about the organisation of the German naw tables of the personnel of the various Poweis, details of the canons na\al budgets, stations of the various fleets m commission, and so forth The lollowing units figures for the battle-fleets ot the great Powers in 1907, as they will stand when all ships now building are completed, though it is to be noted that no allowance is made for the new Russian programme of six battlesnips :—: —

England. r>4 ships of 749,000 tons , Fiance :\l ships of .'M4.000 tons ; Kussia, 20 ships of 902 000 tons (with new programme, 32 ships of ,'398.000 tons) • United States, 23 ships of 260,000 tons ; Germany 19 ships of 230,000 tons The personnel of the great' fleets is given as follows :— England, 122,000 : United States S:SB i jg4ST&.osj g 4ST&.oS. >800 : I!ussia - C2 - 000 : Fmnc ° ;

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