File. Lighthouses and Lightvessels

Reference No:
U DMS/4/113
Dates:
17 May 1939-4 Dec 1984
Description:
File containing extracts from minutes of meetings held by the Missions to Seamen relating to work in the area of lighthouses and light vessels. Includes references to: purchase of wireless sets for 'Rock' lighthouses, 1939; termination of payments re wireless licenses, 1940; Trinity House to take over the society's wireless sets, 1945; essay competition for lighthouse keepers, 1945; National Lighthouse Board and Humber Conservancy Board to take over administration of wireless sets, 1945; impact of the war on light vessels, 1946; Shoe Box Distribution List and Adoption Scheme, 1946; Captain Parnell as Lightship Secretary; proposal to establish a Lightship Sub-Committee, 1946; ministry to lightship crews, 1947; budget for supplying periodicals to lighthouses, 1947; insurance of honorary chaplains, 1948; assistant for Captain Parnell, 1952; Spurn Point Chapel, 1954; provision of TV for lightships and lighthouses, 1955; marriage of Captain Parnell, 1959; interest taken by Trinity House in the society's work for lightship crews and lightkeepers, 1961; individual lighthouses and lightvessels; transportation for honorary chaplains to reach lighthouses and lightships; budgets; Captain Parnell succeeded by Commander A.G.D. Bagot as Lightship Secretary, 1966; Flying Angel Fellowship membership, 1968; death of Captain Parnell, 1968; change of name from Lightships Committee to Lighthouse and Lightship Committee, 1977; changing pattern of reliefs in lightships and lighthouses, 1977; committee to be wound up in light of automation of lights, 1984; committee disbanded 4 Dec 1984.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)