The British Navy
Its Strength, Resources, and Administration

Table of Contents

Preface to fourth volume
Part IV. Dockyards and Naval Organisation:
1. Controllership of the Navy
2. Dockyard administration
3. Professional officers of the Navy
4. Admiralty organisation
5. Recent naval administration
6. Our naval strength and policy
7. Maintenance and repairs of the Navy
8. State of the Navy as debated during the General Election, 1880
9. General policy of the Admiralty, and remarks on the Navy estimates, 1881 to 1883
10. Extra-Parliamentary speeches, 1881
Part V. Naval Reserves:
1. Introductory remarks
2. Necessary strength of our Naval Reserves
3. Efficiency of the Royal Naval Reserve
4. Regulations for drill
5. Recruitment of the Reserve from the fishermen and seamen of the coasting trade
6. Regulations for the enrolment of boys in the third-class Royal Naval Reserve
7. The Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
8. Steam Naval Reserve
9. Officers of the Coast Defence Forces
10. Colonial Naval Volunteer Force
11. Royal Naval Reserve
12. Strength of the Naval Reserve in 1882
Part VI. Naval Training and Education:
1. Training of engineer officers
2. Memorandum on the training of seamen
3. English and foreign opinions on the instruction of the Navy in steam tactics
4. Motions in favour of abolishing a separate branch of officers for navigating duties
5. Dockyard and Naval officers
6. Education of officers for the mercantile marine
7. Experiences in the 'Sunbeam'
Part VII. Retirements and Pensions: Naval officers of the Consular Service
Appendix
Index.