. The Great war. Shipping :i torpedo on board the F ;ncn subm arine Submarine running submerged, with periscope exposed. The Naval Forces of the Belligerents 381 The great aid of wireless telegraphy had come, too, toextend that vital thing—information, which could now beconveyed a thousand miles in a few minutes instead ofbeing slowly conveyed by a cruiser. This and the aero-plane have revolutionized scouting. There must be considered, along with the actual floatingmaterial of a navy, the questions of dockyards and coalingand oil stations; for the modern warship is usually both acoal
. The Great war. Shipping :i torpedo on board the F ;ncn subm arine Submarine running submerged, with periscope exposed. The Naval Forces of the Belligerents 381 The great aid of wireless telegraphy had come, too, toextend that vital thing—information, which could now beconveyed a thousand miles in a few minutes instead ofbeing slowly conveyed by a cruiser. This and the aero-plane have revolutionized scouting. There must be considered, along with the actual floatingmaterial of a navy, the questions of dockyards and coalingand oil stations; for the modern warship is usually both acoal and oil burner. In Great Britain there are fourteendocks that will take the largest of British battleships andsix are building. Abroad there is one such at Gibraltar,one at Malta, one at Singapore, and one building at Bom-bay. There are scores of large British docks under 600feet in length and under 94 feet in breadth, so that thereis ample provision for looking after injured ships. In Ger-many there are eight of the great docks with four morebuilding, none of which hav
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