Skip to main content

Rms "Magdalena"

Volume 464: debated on Wednesday 11 May 1949

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

41.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the plates of the R.M.S. "Magdalena" are riveted or welded.

The whole of the shell plating of the R.M.S. "Magdalena" was riveted and all deck beams, ship's side-frames and double-bottom floors were riveted to the plating. The plates for decks, bulkheads and tank tops were welded.

I could not answer that question, but I can tell my hon. Friend that an inquiry is taking place under the Merchant Shipping Act, and that no doubt that point will come out in the report which is to be made to the Ministry of Transport.

Because the Admiralty is the responsible Department for merchant shipbuilding.