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and they are only intended for coast defence within the
skjærgaard.
The torpedo-boats, which, in our complicated waters with
their numerous channels and sounds between the islands, must
have unusually favourable conditions for their operations, and can
make it very unsafe for any hostile ships, number 28. One of
them is a 380-tons division boat, 10 of them are 84 tons with a
speed of 23 knots, and 17 are from 40 to 65 tons with a speed
of 18 or 19 knots.
These, chiefly new vessels (46 in all) amount to about 29,000
tons, with 53,000 horse power, 174 guns (54 of them from 12 to
27 cm.), and manned with about 3000 men. There are also a
number of old gun-boats and training-ships.
The principal naval station and dockyard is at Karljohansvern,
at Horten, where most of the war-ships have been built. There
are also smaller naval stations at Tønsberg, Kristiansand and
Bergen.
The fleet is manned with merchant sailors, who serve their
time of military service in the navy. On conscription at the age
of 22, they must have served at least a year on merchant ships
in foreign waters. The number of recruits is about 1500 annually,
and there is therefore a far greater number of sailors of the age
in which military service is compulsory, than is necessary even
for a considerably larger fleet. It has therefore been moved, this
year that only the number necessary for the actual needs of the
navy (at present about 650 yearly) shall be taken up for a year’s
naval training.
Signal-stations have been established along the coast, manned
with about 150 enlisted men.
The warrant- and petty-officers of the navy are trained at
Horten. They are organised in (1) a naval corps (gunners, seamen,
and signalmen, non-commissioned officers, and pupils), (2) a
torpedo corps, (3) an artisans’ corps (engineers, engine-room-artificers,
stokers, armourers and carpenters). The school-courses last 4 years.
Lastly, there is (4) a hospital corps. The actual number of
non-commissioned officers and enlisted men amounts to about 1000.
Of commissioned officers there are about 80 regular, and 60
belonging to the reserve, besides medical officers. These numbers
will be considerably increased in the course of the next few years.
They are educated at the naval academy, where the course is 5
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