The _König_ class is to be larger in dimension, in horse-power and in displacement, though not in speed or armament than the _Kaiser_ class, of which there are five ships: The _Kaiser_, the _Kaiserin_, the _Friedrich der Grosse_, the _Prinzregent Luitpold_ and the _König Albert_. Next come the _Helgoland_ class (_Helgoland_, _Ostfriesland_, _Thüringen_, _Oldenburg_) and the _Nassau_ class (_Nassau_, _Westfalen_, _Rheinland_, _Posen_) after which, with the _Deutschland_ class (13,200 tons), we are out of the region of the dreadnaughts. There is a dreadnaught cruiser, the _Derfflinger_, just ready, with a greater displacement (28,000 tons), and of course, with far greater speed than any of the battle-ships. Next comes the _Seydlitz_ (25,000 tons), then the _Moltke_ and the _Goeben_ (23,000 tons), and the _Von der Tann_ (19,500 tons). The _Goeben_ has already been practically captured, as has also the _Breslau_ (4,550 tons). They are now in the Dardanelles, and the Turkish government is considering their purchase. Twenty-three of the protected cruisers bear the names of German cities (like the _Breslau_, _Colberg_, _Dresden_, _Königsberg_), while the rest for the most part have such names as the _Gazelle_, the _Medusa_, the _Niobe_, the _Undine_. Some fifteen of the largest and best-known passenger ships of the Hamburg and Bremen lines were to have served as auxiliary cruisers, but a number of these now are in foreign ports and far from the needed protection of their fleets. It remains to be seen what use will be made of the _Imperator_, which is still at Cuxhaven or Hamburg. In concluding our list of ships in the German navy it may interest Americans to know that there is one called the _Alice Roosevelt_. It is not likely to influence the progress of the war or even to come into action. Its special title is _Stationsjacht_, and it is at the service of the general inspector of the navy, Prince Henry of Prussia. Germany’s ally, Austria, although in May, 1914, she appropriated more than 400,000,000 _kronen_ for her fleet, makes at present a very weak showing. She has fifteen ships of the line, of which three are dreadnaughts, two armored cruisers and seven protected cruisers. England, Germany’s chief naval opponent, has sixty-three ships of the line as compared to her own thirty-eight, and of these twenty-four are dreadnaughts, as compared to seventeen. England has forty-four armored cruisers, of which ten are dreadnaughts; Germany has but fourteen armored cruisers, and but five of them are dreadnaughts. In protected cruisers the ratio is still more in England’s favor, while with torpedo-boats Germany is comparatively well provided—one hundred fifty-four as against one hundred ninety. It may be mentioned here, as a bit of interesting history, that the majority of great naval victories have been won over numerically superior fleets.