HC Deb 11 March 1908 vol 185 cc1510-1
MR. GRETTON (Rutland)

To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he will state the total number of craft of all kinds in the Home Fleet, mentioning separately those in Special Reserve, at the time of the manœ,uvres last autumn, under the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet.

(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The total number of craft of all kinds, excluding submarines, was 189, of which twenty-one were Special Reserve vessels.