. Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1916. ar of warwere thus about 4 per cent, per annum 28 At the outbreak of war, the GermanNavy possessed 14 vessels of the 27-knotclass, and 11 vessels of the older, type. It is difficult to estimate howmany vessels of this class would bedeemed to be necessary for the use with MARINE ENGINEERING OF CANADA the main war fleet; but certainly all ofthese 25 vessels must be regarded as po-tential commerce raiders. The conditions which are considered tobe desirable for the successful prosecu-tion of this type of warfare are that th
. Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1916. ar of warwere thus about 4 per cent, per annum 28 At the outbreak of war, the GermanNavy possessed 14 vessels of the 27-knotclass, and 11 vessels of the older, type. It is difficult to estimate howmany vessels of this class would bedeemed to be necessary for the use with MARINE ENGINEERING OF CANADA the main war fleet; but certainly all ofthese 25 vessels must be regarded as po-tential commerce raiders. The conditions which are considered tobe desirable for the successful prosecu-tion of this type of warfare are that theraiders should have a powerful support-ing squadron for protection against whatmay be termed fighting ships proper, that The maximum period of activity isshown by the fact that most of the lossesoccurred between August 15 and October24, 1914—the remaining losses, whichwere few in number, occurred, however,for another seven months. That theiractivity was so short-lived, and their de-predations so limited—the loss of mer-chant steamers from these raiders did. ANCHOR LINE CO. SS. CAMERON the raiders should be capable of scatter-ing widely, and that they should haveready access to friendly ports and sup-plies. Owing to the disposition of the BritishNaval forces in August, 1914, the onlyraiding squadron of any potential valueto the enemy was that which was basedon Kiaochau. This force consisted oftwo high speed (23 to 24-knots) arm-oured cruisers, the Gneisenau andScharnhorst, provided with eight guns, and protected with sidearmour, as well as by a protective armed light cruiser raiders at liber-ty consisted of six vessels, the Karlsruhe,Dresden, Emden, Konigsberg, Leipsig,and Nurnberg. In addition to these ves-sels, the armoured cruiser Goeben, inassociation with the light cruiser Breslau,were in European waters, but theirperiod of activity was very short, as theyarrived in the Dardanelles on August10, 1914, and so had no effect on com-merce raiding. In a
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