THE IMPERIAL BRITISH NAVY HOW THE COLONIES BEGAN TO THINK IMPERIALLY UPON THE FUTURE OF THE NAVY BY H. C. FERRABY WITH TWO MAPS AND THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED YORK STREET, ST. JAMESS LONDON, WHO GAVE ME MY CHANCE AUTHORS NOTE PROBLEMS envisaged are well on the way to resolution. It has been given to the peoples of Britain to evolve out of chaos a unified system of defensive force which shall serve as a shield to cover widely separated parts of the Empire. It is a task that, like all our tasks, we have been dilatory in beginning. In the latter half of the nineteenth century there was desultory discussion of the subject. At intervals for the next three decades Colonial Conferences talked around the subject in an academic way and passed resolutions. It was not all talk, however. Things were done but the doing was spasmodic, the efforts were not co-ordinated. Local considerations dictated policies and not the best needs of the whole Imperial system. In 1892 Admiral...