Mr. PIKE PEASEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of vessels laid down and struck off the lists in 1908, 1909, and the numbers for 1911, as far as can be anticipated, in the following classes:—Battleships, armoured cruisers, protected and unarmoured cruisers, and destroyers, and the totals laid down and the totals struck off the lists for each of these years?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe numbers of vessels laid down and struck off the lists in the financial years 1908–9, 1909–10, 1910–11, and, as far as can be anticipated, in 1911–12, are as follows, in the classes specified, viz.:—