§ SIR COLMAN RASHLEIGHasked the President of the Board of Trade, If he could state under what Clause or regulation in the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 and 1876, or by what authority, did the Board of Trade (without giving notice of survey to the owners) sent their principal shipwright surveyor to Hamburg, and did there cut up and injure the British sailing vessel "Caleniek," of the port of Fowey, Cornwall; and if such survey was not unlawful, and contrary to the Laws of this Realm, the said vessel being in foreign waters?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYSir, the Calenick was abandoned at sea and brought by salvors safely into the port of Hamburg. The Board of Trade thereupon instituted an inquiry as to the abandonment, and the Wreck Commissioner adjourned the inquiry in order that the owner might employ counsel, and that a survey of the ship might be completed, which, with the knowledge and without any objection on the part of the owner, the Board instructed their principal shipwright surveyor to undertake. The ship was merely tested in the ordinary manner, not cut up. Section 14 of the first of the two Acts which the hon. Member rightly refers to will make it clear to him that there was nothing done unlawfully.