For the outward Atlantic trade from the United Kingdom our estimated requirements were forty-four additional destroyers or sloops.
The deficiency in suitable vessels of this class is best shown by the following table, which reveals the destroyer position at different periods during the year 1917: -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mediterranean.
-- --------------------------------------------------------------+ Pembroke.

| -- -----------------------------------------------------------+ | Queenstown.

| | -- -------------------------------------------------------+ | | Bunerana.

| | | -- ----------------------------------------------------+ | | | North Channel.

| | | | -- -------------------------------------------------+ | | | | Scapa and Invergordon.