HC Deb 29 March 1900 vol 81 cc699-700
MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of * See The Parliamentary Debates [Fourth Series], Vol. lxxix., page 798. Trade whether, in view of the casualties that have recently occurred, steps can be taken to provide a lighthouse or lightship on the Manacles Rocks, off the south coast of Cornwall; and whether either the Trinity House or the Board of Trade are doing anything in the matter.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. RITCHIE,) Croydon

Although the matter has been fully considered, no action is being taken by the Trinity House at present. The Manacles Rocks and adjacent coast lie well out of the ordinary Channel track. The casualties which have given notoriety to this part of the coast have occurred to outward bound vessels which had just left known points of departure. The expenditure involved would not be justifiable in view of the demands at this time for new lighthouses and sea marks in many much more urgent cases.