Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are
able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the
public for several reasons. That's quite a pity while these books contains
useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor
accessible. Main compared the British navy with the major naval powers at that
moment in the world like France and the United States.
P. 62: “That Germany is to have a navy is now a well-known fact. All that we know about it at present is in the formation of a limited
P. 63: liability company for building, repairing iron-clad vessels and other ships, and for constructing dockyards at Kiel. It is called The North German Ship-building Company and is under the protection of the Prussian Minister of Marine.
Source
Robert Main. “The Navy in 1865” in: British army & navy review. Vol IV, London 1866.
P. 62: “That Germany is to have a navy is now a well-known fact. All that we know about it at present is in the formation of a limited
P. 63: liability company for building, repairing iron-clad vessels and other ships, and for constructing dockyards at Kiel. It is called The North German Ship-building Company and is under the protection of the Prussian Minister of Marine.
Source
Robert Main. “The Navy in 1865” in: British army & navy review. Vol IV, London 1866.
