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Thursday, 3 July 2025

British Admiralty received large number of proposals or plans for shot-proof ships between 1859-1862

An item reported that in the British House of Commons on Monday 19 May 1862 a motion for going into the Committee of Supply, Amendment by Lord Robert Montagu was agreed. Text of the moting was: “That there be laid for ths House, a Return of the number of proposals or plans, for the purposes of shot-proof ships, which have been received at the Admiralty during the last three years; distinguishing those which are now awaiting consideration; stating the dates when such porposals or plans were received and reported on respectively; and, if any such proposals or plans have been referred to a Committe, giving the names and qualifications of the respective members of which that Committee was composed”.

An item referred to the Parliamentary papers of 1862 reporting that the between May 1859 and May 1862 the Admiralty received 590 proposals and plans for shot-proof ships. Of there were 85 “referred to a general Committe on Iron-plates; 19 were referred to Captain Hewlett; one (but is not said which) had the honour of being referred to a special Committee; and 37 remained under consideration on 12th June, 1862.”

Source

T. Smith.The Parliamentary Remembrancer, volume 5, Session 1862, London, 1862, p. 102 and 183. 

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