§ MR. CARR-GOMM (Southwark, Rotherhithe)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, since the introduction of mechanicians into the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve engine-room artificers have been sent with mechanicians to receive any form of instruction; and whether, in any of the ships of the Channel Fleet, mechanicians have completed work which Naval Reserve artificers had been detailed to do.
(Answered by Mr. MCKenna.) Both mechanicians and engine-room artificers, Royal Navy Reserve, have been sent to ships of the Channel Fleet for their respective periods of training. The arrangements of their instruction are in the hands of the officers of the ships, and there is no information at the Admiralty to enable a reply to be given to this inquiry.