HC Deb 25 April 1895 vol 32 c1628
LORD GEORGE HAMILTON (Middlesex, Ealing)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he would give, as a Parliamentary Return, the valuable Paper recently read by Mr. Durston, Engineer-in-Chief of the Royal Navy, before the Institute of Naval Architects, entitled: "The Machinery of Warships," and the discussion which ensued thereon?

THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. EDMUND ROBERTSON, Dundee)

This Paper is the property of the Institution of Civil Engineers; and Mr. Durston did not deliver it in his official capacity as Engineer-in-chief of the Royal Navy. I do not think the Admiralty can take the unusual course of giving as a Parliamentary Return a document of this kind for which they have no responsibility.