§ Returns ordered, "arranged under the following Classes, showing for each Class the number, tonnage, and cost of the Effective Ships of the Royal Navy—
- 1. Afloat on the 1st day of January, 1889;
- 2. Standard of strength of Navy decided upon;
- 3. Required to bring present numbe up to proposed standard;
- 4. Required in five years to replace loss by depreciation, &c.;
| RETURN No. 1. | ||||||||||||||
| Class. | Effective Ships afloat 1st January, 1889.* | Proposed standard in 1894. | Required to complete standard. | Expenditure required to complete Ships building. | Expenditure on Ships to be built. | Annual depreciation, as shown in the Estimates 1889–90. | Difference between expenditure proposed and depreciation as estimated. | Remarks. | ||||||
| Number. | Tonnage. | Cast. | Number. | Tonnage. | Number. | Cost. | ||||||||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |||||||||
| Armoured: | ||||||||||||||
| Battle Ships, 1st Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Battle Ships, 2nd Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Battle Ships, Others | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, 1st Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, 2nd Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, Others | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Total armoured | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Protected: | ||||||||||||||
| Cruisers, 1st Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, 2nd Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, 3rd Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Cruisers, Others | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Torpedo Depôt Ships | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Total protected | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Unprotected: | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Corvettes | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Sloops | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Gun Vessels | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Torpedo Cruisers | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Torpedo Gun Boats | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Gun Boats | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Torpedo Boats, 1st Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Torpedo Boats, 2nd Class | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Despatch Vessels | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Total unprotected | … | … | ||||||||||||
| Grand total | … | … | ||||||||||||
| * Effective Ships are understood to comprise all Ships afloat, except those which will probably be removed from the List of the Navy as obsolete, and not worth repair, in the period between the 1st day of April 1889 and the 1st day of April 1894. |
§ Note.—The Columns to be totalled for Classes as shown for Return No. 1.
| Return No. 3. | |||||||
| Names, guns, tonnage, and speed of the Ships afloat in the Royal Navy on the 1st day of January, 1889, but which, being obsolete in type or speed, are not included in the "effective" Ships shown in Returns Nos. 1 and 2:— | |||||||
| Name. | Class. | Tonnage. | Speed. | When launched. | How now employed. | Where stationed | Remarks. |
§ Note.—To be arranged under the classification adopted in Return No. 1.
1817| RETURN No. 4. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Statement of the Naval Expenditure on Shipbuilding and Repairs, &c, in the five years ending on the 31st day of March 1879 and the four years ending on the 31st day of March 1889, compared with the proposed Expenditure for the five years ending on the 31st day of March 1893:— | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nature of expenditure. | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | For four years. | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 estimated. | For four years. | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | For four years. | |||
| Total. | Average. | Total | Average. | Total. | Average. | |||||||||||||
| New Constructions | ||||||||||||||||||
| Repairs, &c | ||||||||||||||||||
| Armaments | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total of Shipbuilding Expenditure from Naval and Army Funds. |
§ —(Lord Randolph Churchill).