Mates and officers promoted from that rank are eligible for appointment to fully commissioned fleet destroyers.
There will be only 65 flotilla leaders and destroyers, amounting to 90,000 tons, within the age limit at the end of 1936.
If we turn over the page we find reference to ships of all classes in reserve, numbering 29 destroyers and 37 frigates.
As a result, last summer, 1,000 redundancies were announced just as the orders were awarded for the type 45 destroyers.
There again, as we build new destroyers, we intend to keep the old destroyers for escort purposes.
Now after six months in which new naval facts have come to light we are to have more destroyers.
My noble friend asked about the approximately 40 frigates and destroyers.
They talk about aiming at having about 50 frigates and destroyers at their disposal.
