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The following table classifies these vessels in 1903, according to speed and flag:
Flag. | Speed in Knots. | |||||||||
20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | Total. | |
British.................... | 7 | 17 | 25 | 40 | 38 | 80 | 197 | 308 | 712 | |
German | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 38 | 68 | 140 | |
American | 4 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 17 | 129 | |
2 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 39 | 113 | ||
Russian | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 32 | |||
Spanish | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 23 | |||
Roumanian | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Italian | 1 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 38 | ||||
Japanese | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 45 | |||
Austro-Hungarian | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 24 | ||||
Danish | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
Dutch..................... | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 28 | |||||
Belgian | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 13 | |||||
Chilean | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||||||
Portugese | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
Brazilian | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
Argentine | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
Total................. | 20 | 9 | 24 | 56 | 80 | 98 | 154 | 379 | 502 | 1,322 |
 
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