Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries). Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 21st February, 1923;--for, return "showing the fleets of the British Empire, United States of America, Japan, France, Italy, Russia, and Germany, on the 1st day of February 1923, omitting obsolete ships of all classes, and distinguishing, both built and building, battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers, light cruisers, cruiser minelayers, armoured coast defence vessels and monitors, aircraft carriers, flotilla leaders, torpedo boat destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, sloops, coastal motor boats, gunboats and despatch vessels, and river gunboats." "Return to show date of launch, date of completion, displacement, horse-power, type of machinery and fuel, and armaments reduced to one common scale (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 123, of session 1922)." [electronic resource].