§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Board 254 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 BALFOURThe 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?