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TABLE IIIb

IN GERMAN WATERS
German Fleet

In Baltic Sea[1]
In Reserve
Battleships					4
Protected Cruisers					2
Destroyers					12
In North Sea[1]
1st and 2nd Squadrons of the High Sea Fleet
Battleships			17	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	19
Battle Cruisers			2
Armoured Cruisers			1	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	6
Protected Cruisers			5
Destroyers					24
In Reserve
Battleships					4
Destroyer Flotilla in support of the High Sea Fleet:
Based	on	Wilhelmshaven	24
„	„	Kiel in Baltic (in reserve)	12	—36

Note.—Of the 30 English Battleships and Battle Cruisers in the North Sea, three are armed with 13*5-inch guns, the remainder with 12-inch; whereas of Germany's 19, three are armed with 12-inch guns, the remainder with only ii-inch, which gives to Great Britain a great superiority in weight of metal.^[2]

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1. Brassey's Naval Annual for 1912, p. 71.
2. Fleets (Great Britain and Foreign Countries) 127, May, 1912.