Personnel

The numbers of officers and men on the active list are variously stated to be from 6,000 to 8,000. The executive officers are distributed as follows: 1 vice-admiral, 4 rear-admirals, 11 captains, 18 commanders, 16 lieutenant-commanders, 25 lieutenants, and 36 midshipmen.

Materiel

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

Built.

Battleships

2

Armored cruisers

2

Protected cruisers

6

Torpedo vessels

5

Torpedo-boat destroyers

6

Torpedo boats

24

Dockyards

The principal dockyards are situated as follows:-

Talcahuno

One dock takes any warship. Valparaiso. - Two small floating docks take cruisers.