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252 commanders, 1,542 (including staff- qommanders and subalterns of marine artillery) junior officers, 503 engineers, 702 medical and civil officers, and 162 naval-yard officers. There are 20 * equipages' in the Baltic, a half equipage at Revel, and a company at Sveaborg, an equipage of the Imperial Guard at St, Petersburg, 10 equipages in the Black Sea, one at Baku, one at Vladivostok, each including the complements of one battleship and of a number of smaller vessels. There is also a training school for gunners and a torpedo school, a naval cadets' training squadron of full-rigged cruisers and sloops, and a divers' school hulk. The total number of officers and men is about 60,000, but many of the men are raw recruits.
The following is a statement of the strength of the Russian Fleet, including ships building and provided for, but excluding training ships, transports, and non-effective vessels.
Baltic Fleet.
At the end of
1912
I'JIS
1914
"Dreadnoughts' . . < .
" Pre-Dreadnought " battleships .
,, armoured cruisers
Protected cruisers .... Torpedo gunboats, &c. . Armoured gunboats
Destroyers
Torpedo boats ....
Submarines . . . . ,
6 3
2
82 3S 20
There is also a special Black Sea fleet, reorganised in 1911. Black Sea Fleet,
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At the end of
A.
1912
1913
1914
" Dreadnoughts " Pre-Dreadnought ' Armoured cruisers Protected cruisers . Destroyers Torpedo boats . Submarines
battleships .... ....
6
2 22 16
8
(5
2
25 .
16
14
3 6?
11
9 V 9
In both fleets there are also a number of gunboats, cfec.
There are also two armoured gunboats, and various very old torpedo boats.
The Caspian flotilla, which is not included in the above statement, consist of a few small gunboats and steamships.
The tables which follow of the Russian armour-clad fleet and principal cruisers are arranged in chronological order. Ships in italics are not yet completed.
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