Fleets (Great Britain and foreign countries). Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 4 May 1909;--for, return "showing the fleets of Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, United States of America, and Japan, on the 31st day of March 1909, omitting battleships and armoured cruisers over 20 years old from date of launch, and distinguishing, both built and building, battleships, cruisers of various grades, torpedo vessels, torpedo boat destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines." "Return to show date of launch, date of completion, displacement, horse-power, and armaments reduced to one common scale (in continuation of parliamentary paper, no. 277, of session 1908)." [electronic resource].