Rear-Admiral William—Henry May, M.V.O., a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Controller of the Navy, has been appointed to the command of the Atlantic Fleet from March, with the rank of Vice-Admiral.
This is evidently the outcome of the scheme by which the present Channel Fleet is to be called the Atlantic Fleet, with its buse ab Gibraltar, and is to consist of eight battleships with a proportionate cumber of cruisers.—; a 28th December.
It is reported that the idea of the establishment of a naval base in the Firth of Forth has been shelved, Sir John Fisher desiring to devote all available funds to the construction of new ships—Reuter.
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