§ SIR WALTER BURRELLasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether it be not possible to obviate, or at all events to lessen, the danger attendant upon the position of the Knavestone Rock, off the coast of Northumberland, to seagoing vessels, either by replacing the beacon formerly standing upon that rock, or by blowing away so much of it as will insure a deepwater channel over it?
§ MR. J. HOLMS (for Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN)I am informed by the Trinity House that the beacon on the Knavestone Rock appears to have been discontinued about the year 1826, when the light on the Longstone was built which, when in line with the light of the Inner Fern, indicates the position of the Knavestone. The rock being thus marked by night and by day it is considered that there is no necessity for a beacon, more especially as the Trinity House are not aware that there have been any casualties which can be attributed to this particular rock.