MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Admiralty have caused the side-light screens of the vessels of Her Majesty's Navy to be so fixed, in accordance with the Order in Council of 30th January, 1893, that a line drawn from the outside edge of the wick to the foremost end of the inboard screen shall make an angle of four degrees, or as near thereto as may be practicable, with a line drawn parallel with the keel of the ship from the outside edge of the wick, as is required by the Board of Trade in the ease of all British vessels whose lights are inspected by its officers?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHNo alteration has been made in the manner of screening the side-lights of Her Majesty's ships, which has for many years approximated to the system lately defined by the Board of Trade.