§ MR. FELLI 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. LAMBERTThe Answer is in the negative. I may add that the 873 Sheerness Bar is to be dredged to allow deep draught ships to pass over it fit half-tide.
§ MR. LAMBERTThe "Dreadnought" can get up to Chatham at certain states of the tide.
§ MR. ARTHUR LEECan she enter Chatham dockyard at any state of the tide?
§ Mr. LAMBERTI said she could get up at certain states of the tide.