§ Lord CHARLES BERESFORDasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he can give a list of the ships and vessels on the effective list not commissioned for the manœuvres?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe list for which the Noble Lord asks is as follows. I have assumed that ships outside home waters and the Mediterranean are not referred to.
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Battleships. Canopus Royal Sovereign Ocean Nile Trafalgar Empress of India Hood Formidable Ramillies Albemarle Resolution Irresistible Repulse Revenge Royal Oak Renown
Armoured Cruisers. Good Hope Suffolk Cornwall Cressy Cumberland Euryalus Protected Cruisers. Amphitrite Eclipse Argonaut Thetis Europa Barham Niobe Minerva Terrible Arrogant Latona Charybdis Sirius Andromache Edgar Apollo Gibraltar Iphigenia Highflier Medea Diana Destroyers. (Including torpedo boats—ex-coastal destroyers.) Crusader Bittern Eden Avon Dee Cherwell Foyle Panther Mermaid Velox T.B. 12. All 27-knot boats. All Mediterranean destroyers. Submarines.
28—and depot ships Vulcan and Thames.
Torpedo Gunboats.
All except Sharpshooter and Hazard.
Torpedo Boats.
All.