How the Admiralty treated Lloyd's views

How much attention did the Admiralty pay to Lloyd's?

It listened when Lloyd's arguments supported the Admiralty's current case and ignored them when they did not.

The prompt asks how much attention the Admiralty paid to Lloyd's. The answer depends on whether Lloyd's arguments helped the case the Admiralty was making at the time. Helpful claims were heard and unhelpful ones ignored. The exchange offers a compact illustration of bureaucratic selectivity in naval policy debate.