Lord
Brassey (1)who founded the Naval Annual said during his speech at Sandwich that
he could assured everyone that the Germany didn’t want to compete with the
Royal British Navy. Brassey said that because he trusted his personal
relationships. When men compared both fleets mostly was forgotten that England
had 5 dreadnoughts and Germany just 2. If the aged German battleships were
counted so the same had to be done with the British and that you got another
quite different result. The British home fleet numbered 35 battleships with 9
pre dreadnoughts as reverse against the 25 German battleships without any
reserve. Regarded the latest new building of ships was Germany indeed advancing
although none one had to forget that ships aged more quickly as in the past and
that the British resources in the shipbuilding industry were inexhaustible.
Note
1.
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (11 February 1836-23 February 1918), a Liberal
Party politician, in 1880 appointed as Lord of the Admiralty and in 1884
Secretary to the Admiralty. Since 1891 was his son Thomas Allnutt editor of the
Naval Annual.
