HC Deb 16 May 1901 vol 94 cc253-4
MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the number of ships lost during the last twenty years which were afterwards declared by courts of inquiry to have been undermanned.

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

The number of ships belongng to the United Kingdom lost during the last twenty years which were afterwards declared by courts of inquiry to have been undermanned, insufficiently or unsatisfactorily manned, was fifty-one, but in no case did the court attribute the loss of the vessel directly or solely to undermanning?