The old problem relating to the Admiralty's use of the drawings of torpedo boat destroyers made by Messrs. Yarrow and Company, Poplar, reappeared in February 1896, when Mr. Holland asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether Messrs. Yarrow's machinery designs for the torpedo boat destroyer Havock were forwarded by the Admiralty under the previous Government to competing firms without the prior knowledge or consent of Messrs. Yarrow, and if so whether the Admiralty intended to continue the system of distributing one firm's designs among other firms without the consent of the firms whose designs they had distributed.