Personnel

There are 321 executive officers and 158 engineer officers on the active list, and from 5,000 to 6,000 men. The executive officers are divided as follows: 1 vice-admiral, 2 rear-admirals, 3 commodores, 11 captains, 42 commanders, 30 lieutenants, 91 sub-lieutenants, 81 midshipmen, and 60 cadets.

Materiel

The strength in ships built and building on Nov. 30th, 1903 was: -

Built.

Battleships.......................

1

Coast defence vessles

4

Armored cruisers..................

4

Protected cruisers.................

5

Torpedo vessels

5

Torpedo-boat destroyers

3

Torpedo-boats

22

Building.

*Armored cruisers.................. 2

Dockyards

The principal dockyards are situated as follows: -

San Fernando

Three small docks take cruisers.

Puerto Belgrano

One large dock takes battleships.

Buenos Ayres

Very limited accommodation.