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Be . MARINE REVIEW. [November 16, signed to the reserve fleet are few, and liable to be needed twice over in case of actual hostilities. : It must be borne in mind that the programme here outlined covers a period of some years. There should be no two opinions as to what we most need. Emphatically our greatest lack is in battleships and armored cruisers; the comparison of our stock of these classes with that possessed by other nations shows this without possibility of argument; and when we note the rate at which the other great powers are adding to their stock of these vessels: we must conclude that we want them badly. If we under- take the construction of a certain number of vessels of each class every year, laying down a definite programme to be followed without diminution each year, and if we include in this programme three battleships and three armored cruisers every year, it will take eight years to get under construc- tion the number of battleships we need for the offensive fleet, and sixteen years for the last of the armored cruisers and at least three years more in each case before the last one is in commission. We should not fail, there- fore, to include in any plan of naval increase for the next eight years three sea-going battleships, and for sixteen years, three armored cruisers. Next in order will come the provisions for protected cruisers for chasing the commerce of an enemy, convoying our own merchant vessels and com- municating with our foreign dependencies. Needing twenty-nine of this class of vessels, if we build one each year for ten years and two each year thereafter for five years, we shall still be nine short of the number re- quired. Our coast protection must be considered at the same time and provision made for gradually acquiring the vessels needed for that pur- pose. Needing twenty-three monitors and twenty-one battleships we \ should order one of each class every year until the number is complete. As it is altogether likely that our merchant marine will receive accessions of a class of vessels suitable for scouting cruisers, we may defer any pro- vision for them. In destroyers and torpedo boats we are lamentably weak, and, while the necessity or usefulness of these boats is not assured beyond possibility of doubt, we should supply ourselves with a reasonable number to use as a protection against those of other nations. We should build ten destroyers per year for the next five years and five per annum after that time and say five torpedo boats per annum until we get the number needed. Based on these lines the construction programme would be about as follows, viz.: FOR FIRST FIVE YEARS, EACH YEAR. 3 sea-going battleships at $3,500,000 each...................... $10,500,000 icoastadetencesbattleshipurt.. ssn. steels os hte ee eae 3,000,000 USSITMTOMItO tap isrdy. Set te ah. CA ee ee FEE Ee ...- 1,500,000 3 armored cruisers at $4,000,000 each..................2c-eeeee 12,000,000 pirotectedweniiSers aretha. tte a Sock eRe heel ees, 2,100,000 ItimproLected CuiniSeteee ct. fictr. Sok oats eas ks ewe we eee 1,000,000 Bcc Ontmee NeA gar ce tere ne ek cee oe, Re ee 250,000 NORGEeStrovensvat: $500000MeAChs eats. on ctceere sete ste 3,000,000 HEtoRpedo boats at hlulO00keachy. 4. - reeset oes das a. 750,000 HCig ye Aa OmeniVenViCaNSters. ths, Ih or akin Peles sessions ea ee $34,100,000 Armor and armament would be additional-and make the total appro- priation required in the neighborhood of $50,000,000 each year. SIXTH, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH YEARS. Same as above, less 5 destroyers each year......... $32,600,000 97,800,000 NINTH AND TENTH YEARS. 2 coast defence battleships.............. -. $3,000,000 $6,000,000 PATMOMLORS MAG eetie eRe Reis aia 1,500,000 3,000,000 . B Araaoyreal CELUSEMS onooncodocnobGooouGooD 4,500,000 12,000,000 IE protected' Cnuisen <aacncece sc came ie. woe 2,100,000 ci tSeite nt eur ee ors. cs saber ae oor I vc ace 6 600,000 Neronainb Oateery er. ec isk Aedes elie) . 1ere epee as matt 314 6 ies 250,000 HEGEStRONEES en: jot cae. Tee eS. 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ELEVENTH, TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH YEARS. 2 coast defence battleships ............... $3,000,000 $6,000,000 2 oat = Pe ee ea ara s ceaee Ghat ctep 1,500,000 3,000,000 Y Dironacwaal GUNES oo noconsvosasosHdddbe 2,100,000 4,200,000. . 3} Aisonormeal CimbNIEIS cAccnooonbatooboscuoue 4,000,000 12,000,000... budestroyers surearni fc aes meee eames 300,000 1,500,000 Ren year tOrrony.cans. «stress ne ee tte eer ers $26,700,000 80,100,000 FOURTEENTH YEAR. Ar at 1 tidefence battleshipme ap -cmenrests.c: $3,000,000 $3,000,000 2 ree Ne Lely by pees Sea aie ehoke, So 1,500,000 3,000,000 By eKpolomeal Gipbilars anoacanooououddonasoe 4,000,000 12,000,000 2) IOC! GASES povoeecorducsgccos0sc 2,100,000 4,200,000 TES COUtEC TUS OT ferns eas Meo Batic a 2,000,000 DRCESEROVELS Mei ater. .0 tei asinmemece 300,000 1,500,000 -------- _ 25,700,000 FIFTEENTH YHAR. 2 coast defence battleships............... $3,000,000 $6,000,000 RUMOMMOLS ee Ces thee oe tte eae 1,500,000 4,500,000 OepROLected CiulSels <aene tye ee cet: 2,100,000 4,200,000 SB ArMlOnecdeenulscism rei eice ei ne ee 4,000,000 12,000,000 oo 26,700,000 Motalkessperidituimest in alomyeatShese cares cy deel engteneteteiete ate $451,700,000 Add 1/3 for armor and armament, say....,.............. 148,300,000 BIR G fallleatpaha etek ah ooops ay ct A Stes Se enala $600,000,000 An average of $40,000,000 per year for the next fifteen years for the in- crease of the navy. This programme leaves at the end of fifteen years three armored cruisers and nine protected cruisers to be built, all of which can be laid down in one year without exceeding the annual sum allowed for each year by more than $5,000,000, or the whole can be divided into two years and one or two other vessels built each year. The average of forty millions per annum for fifteen years is certainly a good round sum, yet, compared with the amounts European nations are spending on the increase of their naval establishments, it is not a large amount. Some are spending as high as fifty to sixty millions per year and it is an open question whether our expenditures on the scale here indicated are sufficient to place us in as good a relative position as that we now occupy. With that, however, we need not concern ourselves; the large expenses here suggested are al) we can afford and will be sufficient to put us in a good position to say the least. With the amounts required from time to time for repairs and re- newals and for incidentals, as yard and docks, we shall be spending a very large sum on the navy. WAYS AND MEANS FOR THE INCREASE. Ways and means for this increase are now to be considered. The work here outlined is certainly for the good of the whole country and especially for the advantage of posterity. It would seem that such an im- portant work as is here being considered is one where a great part of the cost could fairly be saddled upon those who will receive the greater part of the benefit. Especially as we are still engaged in paying pensions to those who defended the country during the civil war does it seem fair that the whole of the first five years' expenses should be provided for by an issue of bonds for the sum needed each year on account of "increase of the navy." 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