HC Deb 25 February 1908 vol 184 c1547
SIR BERKELEY SHEFFIELD (Lincolnshire, Brigg)

To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty how many battleships, armoured cruisers, protected cruisers, and torpedo-boats destroyers have been struck off the list of efficient fighting ships in 1907.

(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The only vessel struck off the effective list in 1907 was the torpedo-boat destroyer "Ariel," sunk off Malta.