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The following table sets forth the total strength of the Navies of Great Britain and Germany:

TABLE IV

Comparative strength of the two Navies (omitting Battleships and Armoured Cruisers over 20 years old).
Great Britain						Germany
Battleships			55	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	60	Battleships			33	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	55
Battle Cruisers			5			Battle Cruisers			2
Armoured Cruisers					34	Armoured Cruisers					9
Protected	Cruisers	I.	18	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	72	Protected	Cruisers	I.	0	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	37
„	„	II.	38			„	„	II.	26
„	„	III.	16			„	„	III.	11
Unprotected Cruisers					5	Unprotected Cruisers					6
Scouts			8	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	387	Destroyers			109	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	202
Torpedo Vessels			26			Torpedo Boats			80
Destroyers			179			Submarines			13
Torpedo Boats			109
Submarines			109
Grand total					558	Grand total					289

There are some battleships over twenty years old still appearing in England's and Germany's Naval Lists ; and in these so-called obsolete vessels Great Britain is also much stronger than Germany.^[1]

1. Lord Brassey, at page 8 of The Naval Annual for 1912, writes: "It has been a wise policy, largely due to the initiative of Lord Fisher, to put out of the dockyards vessels