§ MR. HAVELOCK WILSON (Middlesbrough)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the serious shipping disasters that have occurred off the south coast of Cornwall in consequence of the want of a lightship or lighthouse to warn 443 mariners off the Manacles Rock; and whether he will take steps to communicate with the Corporation of Trinity House, with a view to having this dangerous part of the coast lighted by a lightship or lighthouse for the purpose of warning mariners of the danger.
§ MR. RITCHIEMy attention has from time to time been called to disasters that have occurred in the neighbourhood of the Manacles. The Trinity House, as the general lighthouse authority, are responsible for the lighting of the coast, and the Board of Trade have not received from them any application for sanction to the necessary expenditure for the establishment of a lighthouse or light vessel near the Manacles.