HC Deb 22 February 1933 vol 274 c1716
9. Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he has yet received any report on an apparatus for locating, communicating with, and saving the crews of sunken submarines which was submitted by Mr. E. E. Beechey to the Admiralty Department of Scientific Research and Experiment in February, 1932, after a provisional patent had been granted; and whether it is intended to adopt this or a similar apparatus?

Sir B. EYRES MONSELL

The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part of the question, it is not intended to adopt the apparatus to which my hon. Friend refers. The design of indicator buoy and escape apparatus fitted in His Majesty's submarines was adopted before Mr. Beechey originally approached the Admiralty.