MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, having regard to the fact that, on his own statement in April, 1887, the ship yard on the Foyle at Derry City was duly certified and placed upon the Admiralty List, he will give directions that some of the contracts for the new shipbuilding undertaken by the Admiralty shall be offered to the Derry shipbuilding yard?
§ * LORD G. HAMILTONThe shipbuilding yard on the Foyle at Derry, though placed on the Admiralty List as eligible for certain classes of war ships, is not considered capable at present of constructing vessels of over 2,000 tons displacement under the conditions required by the Admiralty. The ships to be built under the new programme are either too large for the capabilities of the yard or of such a special character that they could only be intrusted to firms which have made vessels of the kind a speciality.