HC Deb 12 July 1864 vol 176 c1390
SIR JAMES ELPHINSTONE

said, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, To lay upon the table of the House a list of the Steam Vessels now employed on the West Coast of Africa, with their speed as ascertained at the measured mile?

LORD CLARENCE PAGET

said, in reply, that he did not think it would be desirable to enter into any details upon the subject. That was just the sort of information which the owners of the slave-trading vessels would wish to obtain,