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the second-class and most of the third-class ironclads at the Motala Works in
Norrköping, a few gun-boats and torpedo boats at the naval ship-building yards
at Karlskrona, other torpedo boats at Stockholm.
The personnel and materiel of the fleet are distributed in two naval
stations, namely Karlskrona and Stockholm, each under its own
Commander-in-Chief. The Commander of the Station at Karlskrona is also
admiral and commander of the Karlskrona fortress.
To each Station belongs a naval dockyard (varv) with docks, slips, workshops,
stores, and so forth; its director is in economic matters immediately subordinate
to the Marinförvaltning, or Navy Board; its work is distributed over five
sections: the Artillery, the Torpedo, the Equipage, the Mines, and the Engineer
sections. The naval dockyard at Karlskrona employs about 1 600 workmen,
that at Stockholm 500 to 600.
The control and auditing of cash, victuals, clothing, equipment, etc., is in
the hands of the Pay Office (räkenskapskontor) of the Station, which is made
up of the majority of the navy intendants (marinintendent) of the Station.
Submarine (•’Valen").
The personnel of the Fleet consists of the Stam, or professional seamen,
the Reserves, and the Conscripts. The Stam and the Reserves comprise
the following corps and bodies: a) military: the officers (together with
the cadets), the non-commissioned officers, the seamen, and the ship
boys: b) the civil-militäry: the naval engineers and the naval intendants,
chaplains and instructors, medical officers, police and others.
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