§ COLONEL HUGHES-HALLETT (Rochester)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether, inasmuch as the Edinburgh, Conqueror, and Impérieuse are not, and never have been, in commission, there are no heavy armour-piercing breech-loading guns afloat, otherwise than in dock, except those of the Colossus, which the captain has been ordered not to fire?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)There are no heavy breech-loading guns afloat capable of piercing 20 inches of armour at 2,000 yards in ships in commission, except those in the Colossus.