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ENGLISH AND GERMAN FLEETS
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TABLE VIII[1]
| Great Britain | Germany | ||||
| Tonnage | Number of Ships | Number of Ships | |||
| 2,000 | and | under | 3,000 | 830 | 140 |
| 3,000 | ,, | ,, | 4,000 | 1,198 | 140 |
| 4,000 | ,, | ,, | 5,000 | 773 | 59 |
| 5,000 | ,, | ,, | 7,000 | 420 | 109 |
| 7,000 | ,, | ,, | 10,000 | 201 | 110 |
| 10,000 | ,, | ,, | 12,000 | 57 | 40 |
| 12,000 | ,, | ,, | 15,000 | 37 | 12 |
| 15,000 | ,, | ,, | 20,000 | 6 | 10 |
| 20,000 | ,, | ,, | 25,000 | 4 | 1 |
| 25,000 | ,, | ,, | 30,000 | — | 1 |
| 30,000 | ,, | ,, | 40,000 | 2 | — |
| 40,000 and above | 1 | — | |||
| Total | 3,529 | 489 | |||
So far, however, the Admiralty has refused to subsidise any merchant vessel with a speed of less than 22 knots, on the ground that, unless their speed is much above that of the enemy's fastest cruisers,
- ↑ Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1912, Table V, vol. ii. p. 920. The largest steamer in the world is the Olympic, a British steamer, registering 45,324 tons; the largest German steamer is the George Washington, 25,570 tons; but Germany is building a vessel considerably larger than the Titanic, recently lost in the Atlantic— H. B. H.
