Large number of labourers on German naval yards according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens 1898 no. 1

An item reported that at the three German naval yards at Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and Danzig worked at that moment 12.500 labourers (Kiel 4.580, Wilhelmshaven 5.470 and Danzig 2.450) and at the torpedo yard at Friedrichsort another 918 labourers.