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Excerpt from Information Concerning Some of the Principal Navies of the World: A Series of Tables Compiled to Answer Popular Inquiry The Navy Department is so frequently in receipt of letters from all parts of the country requesting information for debating societies, journals, and periodicals, as well as individuals, concerning the relative strength of the principal naval powers, the types of vessels building or built, and facts concerning the type of battleship popularly known as Dreadnought, that it has directed the Office of Naval Intelligence to prepare tables which will substantially make reply to the greater part of such letters. Under these instructions the Office of Naval Intelligence has compiled the following tables from the best available data; and while these tables may be regarded as substantially correct, it is possible that inaccuracies may occur, for the reason that few countries besides the United States publish all the data concerning their fighting strength, and even greater efforts are being made abroad to maintain secrecy. Tables I, II, III, IV, and V were compiled April 1, 1913, and are here reproduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.