MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether complaints have reached him that the dynamo used for the production of the electric light on H.M.S.Britannia causes, when running, a constant and intolerable tremor and shaking; whether any representations have been node by any captains or officers of the Britannia, requesting that this dynamo might be removed to the shore or put into a vessel not inhabited by young cadets; whether the late First Lord of the Admiralty ordered last year a change in the dynamo, or in its position, calculated to remove the cause of complaint; whether that change has yet been carried into effect?
*THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Sir U.KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH,) Lancashire, ClitheroeMy answer is in the affirmative to the three first paragraphs of the question. As to the concluding paragraph, I have to say that the work is in hand, and that the plant for electric lighting is to be transferred as quickly as possible to a mortar vessel alongside the ship.