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24 docks suitable for the largest vessels that at present exist will be completed in a few months—one for the Medway and the other for Portsmouth. Early in 191 3 a new dock will be available at Portsmouth, another in January 1914; and three docks and the lock at Rosyth in 191 6. There are also five private docks which could be used for the largest vessels, and two more are building.

Mercantile Auxiliaries

The difference between the size, speed, and number of the British merchant-men that could be used as cruisers or scouts in time of war and the German merchant ships that might be similarly employed is as great, and as much to the advantage of the former marine, as the difference which has been shown to exist between the British and the German Navies.