Eureka Reporter | 1907-10-18 | Page 4 | Great British Fleet Assembling

great brit sh fleet bl ng london there is now assembling in the north sea and the english channel for maneuvers under the corn com mand of admiral lord charles beres ford a fleet of british warships rep resenting an aggregation of naval power surpassing all the immediately available resources of any two other countries of europe and yet not a single ship of this fleet has been drawn from the reserves the mediker fanean fleet feet or the devonport and portsmouth divisions the home fleet which is now assembling con fists merely of those ships maintained in the vicinity of the british icieg and which throughout the year have been engaged in var training it numbers and is composed of awen ty six battleships fifteen armored cruisers several protected cruisers various auxiliary vessels and forty eight torpedo vessels