HC Deb 20 March 1876 vol 228 c268
CAPTAIN PIM

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If he has any objection to give the names of the eight or ten frigates and the eight or ten corvettes, mentioned in his speech on moving the Navy Estimates as condemned; also the names of the eleven sloops as "unfit for general purposes?"

MR. HUNT

, in reply, said, he hoped the hon. and gallant Member would not press him to give the names of the ships which were condemned and unfit for general purposes. It would only be setting a bad precedent if he were to publish to all the world the existing state of ships in the Navy.