Naval Defence Act

The primary rationales behind the Naval Defence Act were military and economic.

In practice, the Naval Defence Act of 1889 had limited economic success but failed as a deterrent.

The organisation was founded in the early 1900s and officially recognised under the Naval Defence Act in 1910.

This age of naval dominance at low cost was ended by the Naval Defence Act 1889.

She was constructed under the Naval Defence Act of 1889 along with several other Astraea class cruisers.

Naval Defence Act may refer to:

Under the Naval Defence Act (1912) the power to make the transfer was conferred in the Governor General.

British policy, stated in the Naval Defence Act of 1889, was to maintain a navy superior to Britain's two largest rivals combined.

The ships of the Royal Sovereign class were built under the Naval Defence Act 1889, which provided £21 million for a vast expansion programme.

Astraea was ordered as part of the eight-ship Astraea-class under the Naval Defence Act of 1889.

Tryon was consulted on the best design for new battleships following the naval defence act of 1889, which had authorised seventy new ships including ten battleships.

The next British battleships ordered by the Royal Navy were those ordered as part of the 1889 Naval Defence Act programme.

The Naval Defence Act reasserted the standard by its formal adoption and signalled an ambition to improve British naval supremacy to an even higher level.

In that role Richards led a huge shipbuilding and naval works programme undertaken in accordance with the provisions of the Naval Defence Act 1889.

Ordered under the Naval Defence Act of 1889, which established the "Two-Power Standard", the class was contemporary with the first torpedo boat destroyers.

Instead of deterring the naval expansion of foreign powers, Britain's Naval Defence Act contributed to a naval arms race.

In 1865, the British Parliament had passed the Colonial Naval Defence Act, which enabled colonies to establish and maintain naval forces for home defenses.

Despite their qualities they had relatively short commissions, as they soon were rendered superfluous by the "flood of warships" built under the Naval Defence Act of 1889.

Though this was opposed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, the Naval Defence Act of 1913 brought the division into existence.

The Naval Defence Act authorised the Government to establish a naval force organisation which would pass to the control of the Admiralty in the event of war.

The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.

The passing of the Naval Defence Act 1913 created the New Zealand Naval Forces as a separate division within the Royal Navy.

Since Western Australia did not achieve self-government until 1890, the colony was forbidden from operating its own naval vessels under the Colonial Naval Defence Act of 1865.

Twenty-one of the Apollo class of second-class cruisers were built under the 1889 Naval Defence Act, along with eight to a modified design (the Astraea Class).

The standard, long accepted unofficially, was made official by the Naval Defence Act 1889, and designated the French and Russian navies as the most likely adversaries for Britain on the high seas.