§ COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if any experiments have been made to ascertain what is the smallest size of shot which will disable a 40 or 60-ton gun when the shot hits the large gun on the side of the latter?
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. E. STANHOPE, Lincolnshire, Horncastle)The subject has engaged the serious attention of the Ordnance Select Committee, and experiments have been tried. But I am advised that in the interests of the public service it is not desirable to make public either the results or the opinion of the Committee.
§ COLONEL NOLANI will put a question to the First Lord of the Admiralty on the subject in reference to guns mounted en barbette in the Fleet.