Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — BRITAIN NEEDS MORE WAR SHIPS [ARTICLE]

BRITAIN NEEDS MORE WAR SHIPS

The London Graphic publishes an interview with Admiral Frederick B. P. Seymour (Baron Alcest--’* upon tho state of the navy. The Admiral says that the condition of the navy is most serious. Twenty million pounds, he says-, ought to be expended to build quickly ten first-class men-of-war and as manv cruisers as possible. He condemned the practice of building vessels with nnarmored ends, and advocated tho use of a complete belt at the water line on account of tho great strength which would thus be given to the rams, which, he said, would be the chief offensive weapon in future naval warfare. He complained of the lack of a sufficient number of trained seamen and said that the Mediterranean fleet ought to be largely increased and Gibraltar retained at all cost.