§ SIR SAVILE CROSSLEY (Suffolk, Lowestoft)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether the Government will endeavour to replace such of the cruisers detailed for the protection of drifters in the North Sea as are obsolete by other cruisers, of an improved class like H.M.S. Hearty?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Baling)As the cruisers become unfitted for the service on which they are engaged they will be replaced by efficient vessels; but I can- 1656 not undertake to say that they shall be of the same class as the Hearty, as the replacements must depend on the vessels at the disposal of the Admiralty at the time.