ADMIRAL FIELDI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether extra water-tight bulkheads have been recently or are being now fitted to H.M.S. Sans Pareil, at Malta, above her protective deck, by special desire of her Captain, as additional protection against disaster from injury by ram or torpedo; and whether the ships of the Admiral class, now in the Mediterranean, will he also similarly fitted with these extra bulkheads to give them increased protection?
THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Sir U. KAY-SHUTTLE-WORTH,) Lancashire, ClitheroeExtra water-tight bulkheads have been fitted at Malta in H.M.S. Sans Pareil above the main deck (top of belt), on the suggestion of her Captain, to give increased security under certain circumstances. The ships of the Admiral class do not resemble the Sans Pareil either in the disposition or in the number of the bulkheads between the main and upper decks, so that the suggestions made for the Sans Pareil do not apply to the Admiral class.