§ LORD CHARLES BERESFORD (York)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no fog signal sound between the Cotton Lightship and the Shipwash, distance 31 miles; and whether, as this is the part of the coast generally made first by all ships in the Baltic trade, and it is often hazy and foggy, the Board of Trade will direct the attention of the Trinity House authorities to the necessity for a fog horn between the places mentioned?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADEMy attention has not been drawn to the absence of a fog signal between the Cotton Lightship and the Shipwash. The Board of Trade have no power to recommend the establishment of light vessels or fog signals, but I have no doubt that the attention of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House will be called to the noble Lord's Question.