HC Deb 24 June 1907 vol 176 cc872-3
MR. FELL

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if the channel to the Chatham dockyard is to be deepened so as to allow of the passage of the "Dreadnought and other battleships of great draught of water.

MR. LAMBERT

The Answer is in the negative. I may add that the Sheerness Bar is to be dredged to allow deep draught ships to pass over it fit half-tide.

MR. FELL

What about the "Dreadnought?"

MR. LAMBERT

The "Dreadnought" can get up to Chatham at certain states of the tide.

MR. ARTHUR LEE

Can she enter Chatham dockyard at any state of the tide?

Mr. LAMBERT

I said she could get up at certain states of the tide.