30 JULY 1887, Page 1
On Saturday last the Queen reviewed from the deck of
the Royal yacht, if not the most imposing, at any rate the moat formidable Fleet that has ever been assembled. The ships, to the number of 135, consisting of every type and size of vessel, were ranged in double lines, and down this sea-lane, over four miles long, the Queen passed. It would, perhaps, have been more striking if instead the ships had defiled before her Majesty; but, possibly, to have performed this evolution with a Fleet of such numbers, and composed of vessels of such enor- mous size and tonnage, would have been too dangerous. In the great Naval Review of 1856, at the close of the Crimean War, such was the plan of review adopted; but then the Fleet did not consist of heavily armoured ironclad turret-ships.
