An item reported that the Turkish cabinet approved a shipbuilding program for a period of 8 years with as budget more as 200 million guilders. The program included 6 battleships, 12 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats, 6 submarines, 2 mine ships, 2 training ships, 24 river vessels, 1 hospital ship and 6 transports/ The British admiral Cross was allowed by the British cabinet to reorganize the Turkish navy.(1)
Note.
1. End 1908 was the British vice admiral Sir Douglas Gamble appointed as advisor and he arrived on 2 February a year later in Constantinople . In April a year later he was replaced by vice admiral Hugh Pigot Williams who was on his turn replaced by admiral Arthur Limpus arriving in beginning of May 1912.
