| {1914-1915| 4 | -- | 4 | 12 | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | 12 | | +------+---------+---------+-----------+-------+------+---------+---------+-----------+ | {1915-1916| 4 | -- | --[23]| --[23]| --[23]| 2 | -- | 2 | 12 | | {1916-1917| 4 | -- | --[23]| --[23]| --[23]| 3 | -- | 2 | 12 | | {1917-1918| 4 | -- | --[23]| --[23]| --[23]| 2 | -- | 2 | 12 | | +------+---------+---------+-----------+-------+------+---------+---------+-----------+ |Totals authorised | | | | | | | | | | | (1905-1914) | | | | | | | | | | | (Dreadnought | | | | | | | | | | | period) | 43 | -- | 42 | 137 | 36 | 28 | 1 | 18 | 108 | +-------------------+------+---------+---------+-----------+-------+------+---------+---------+-----------+ As is explained elsewhere, Germany has remained faithful to the policy outlined in the Memorandum, but by successive Navy Acts she greatly increased the means for giving effect to it--one legislative measure succeeding another in quick succession, always making an increase in the naval establishment. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 20: Included in these two figures are eight scouts--small cruisers--which were laid down in 1902 and 1903.] [Footnote 21: The cruisers of 1912-14 were designated "light armoured cruisers."] [Footnote 22: These thirty-six craft are small destroyers, and were built as such.] [Footnote 23: No programme of British cruisers or torpedo craft announced. The forty-three British battleships exclude the two Colonial vessels--_Australia_ and _New Zealand_--and the battleship given by the Federated Malay States, and ordered early in 1913. With these the number of Dreadnought vessels is increased to forty-six.] END.