§ VISCOUNT CURZON (Bucks, Wycombe)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he can state what was the total amount paid to the salvors of the Sultan, the total cost incurred in navigating the Sultan to England, and the estimated cost for repairing and refitting that vessel.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe total amount paid to the salvors of the Sultan was £50,000, besides the sum of £5,036,paidfor the hire of salvage steamers during the first unsuccessful attempt to raise the vessel. The cost of repairing the Sultan, so as to enable her to come home, was estimated at £10,000, and the total cost of navigating her to England was, roughly, £1,000. No estimate has yet been made of the cost of repairing and refitting the Sultan for service, as that has been postponed until the re-engining and re-armament of the vessel can be combined with the repairs of the hull.