§ MR. MACDONALD (Tower Hamlets, Bow)On behalf of the Member for Portsmouth (Mr. Clough) I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Admiralty are satisfied with the two first of the 42 torpedo boat destroyers recently ordered; and whether they are taking care to utilise their experience as to details of the Havock and Hornet in the construction of other vessels of the same class?
THE SECRETAEY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Sir U. KAY-SHUTTLE-WORTH,) Lancashire, ClitheroeThe Admiralty are glad to recognise that Messrs. Yarrow have been the contractors who have first constructed and completed with rapidity for the British Navy vessels of the high speed of the Havock and Hornet. On behalf of the Admiralty I am happy to express our satisfaction with the manner in which the contract has been carried out. We are also ready to acknowledge the value which we attach to the designs of Messrs. Yarrow for the machinery of these vessels. Practical proof has been 1000 given of this favourable opinion by our use of certain parts of these designs as a guide to contractors for some of the other torpedo boat destroyers since ordered.