§ MR. BEAUCHAMP (Suffolk, Lowestoft)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether 120 youths-from "Ganges II." were, early in January, sent to two of the battleships of the Nore Division of the Home Fleet; whether they form part of the complement; and whether he can state the total number of hours spent at sea by these two battleships since the youths were drafted into them.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSON119 youths were drafted to His Majesty's Ships "Magnificent" and "Victorious" in January last; and these ships have since then spent at sea 196 hours and seventy-six and a half hours respectively. Although I deprecate inquiries into minute details regarding the complements of His Majesty's ships, I may say on this occasion that these youths belong to the complement of the ships referred to, being largely in substitution, for boys borne in the normal seagoing, complement.