HC Deb 03 March 1936 vol 309 cc1168-9
17. Mr. DAY

asked the President of the Board of Trade the coastal stations, including radio beacons fixed or rotating, that are equipped with wireless directional signalling, and the names of the same and where they are situated?

Mr. RUNCIMAN

I am circulating a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT giving the desired information.

I.—List of Radio Beacons on the Coasts of the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State.
Name of Authority. Name of Station. Position. Type.
Trinity House … … Cromer … … Norfolk … … Fixed
Orfordness … … Suffolk … … Rotating.
East Goodwin Light Vessel. Off Kentish coast … Fixed.
North Foreland … … Kent … … Fixed.
Dungeness … … Kent … … Fixed.
Nab Tower … … Spithead … … Fixed.
Start … … South Devon … … Fixed.
Caskets … … Channel Islands … Fixed.
Round Island … … Scilly Islands … … Fixed.
North Lundy … … Bristol Channel … … Fixed.
South Bishop … … Pembrokeshire … … Fixed.
Skerries … … Anglesey … … Fixed.
Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses. Mull of Kintyre … Argyllshire … … Fixed.
Barra Head (under construction). South Hebrides … … Fixed.
Butt of Lewis … … Hebrides … … Fixed.
Sule Skerry … … North West Scotland … Fixed.
Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses. North Ronaldshay … Orkney … … Fixed.
Kinnaird Heag … … Aberdeenshire … … Fixed.
Isle of May … … Firth of Forth … … Fixed.
Irish Free State:
Commissioners of Irish Lights. Tuskar (under construction). Off Wexford coast … Fixed.
Daunts Rock Light Vessel. Off Cork Harbour … Fixed.
Mizen Head … … County Cork … … Fixed.
Eagle Island (under construction). County Mayo … Fixed.
Tory Island … … County Donegal … Fixed.
Humber Conservancy Board. Spurn Light Vessel … Humber … … Fixed.
Great Western Railway … Rame Head … … Near Plymouth … … Fixed.
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Bar Light Vessel … River Mersey … … Fixed.
Clyde Lighthouses Trustees. Cumbrae … … Firth of Clyde … … Radio Talking Beacon.
II —List of Wireless Telegraph Stations in the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State which, on request, give bearings to Ships.
Wick … … … … … … Caithness.
Cullercoats … … … … … Northumberland.
Humber … … … … … … Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.
Niton … … … … … … Isle of Wight.
Land's End … … … … … Cornwall.
Portpatrick … … … … … Wigtownshire.
Malin Head … … … … … County Donegal, Irish Free State.