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ENGLISH AND GERMAN FLEETS
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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 19
Battle Cruisers 2
Armoured Cruisers 1 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. 1.0 1.1 Brassey's Naval Annual for 1912, p. 71.
  2. Fleets (Great Britain and Foreign Countries) 127, May, 1912.