§ Mr. T. E. SMITHasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If, with a view to the prevention of loss of life at sea through the inability to lower ships' boats at all times, he would sanction a trial from one of Her Majesty's ships of known inventions for lowering and releasing ships' boats by one man?
§ Mr. HUNT, in reply, said, that several inventions of the kind had been tried, and were now being tried. The Admiralty would, he might add, be willing to try any further invention, if there was only a reasonable hope of its being successful.