Personnel

There are 16,700 of all ranks in the Spanish Navy, and 9,000 marines. All these are conscripts. The officers are divided as follows: 1 admiral, 4 vice-admirals, 11 rear-admirals, 22 captains, 47 commanders, 94 lieutenant-commanders, 131 lieutenants, 340 sub-lieutenants, 165 midshipmen, and 100 cadets.

Materiel

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

Built.

Battleship

1

Armored cruisers

2

Protected cruisers

6

Torpedo vessels

17

Torpedo-boat destroyers

4

Torpedo boats

10

Building.

Armored cruisers

2

Protected cruisers

2

Dockyards

The principal dockyards are situated as follows: -

Cadiz

Three docks take cruisers.

Cartagena

One floating dock takes large cruisers.

Bilboa

One dock takes any Spanish ship; two smaller.