File. Holyhead District (Trinity House Correspondence)

Reference No:: U DMS/8/1/37
Dates:: 30 Sep 1948-27 Apr 1981
Description:: File containing notes, district relief schedules, and correspondence between Captain J.R. Meyrick, Captain E.H. Harris and Captain Goodman, as Superintendents of Trinity House Depot at Holyhead, Mr Edgar Lewis as Officer in Charge of Trinity House Depot at Holyhead, and Captain G.L. Parnell, Commander A.G.D. 'Guy' Bagot, Reverend A. Powell Hutchison, and Reverend J.R. 'Bob' Precious as secretaries of the Lightships and Lighthouses Committee of the Missions to Seamen. Includes references to the following: Trinity House vessels making relief visits to lighthouses and lightships in the the Holyhead district; transport of honorary chaplains onboard Trinity House vessels; reliefs increasingly undertaken by helicopter leading to less opportunity for honorary chaplains to visit light vessels; Trinity House vessel 'Argus' and its crew; distribution of Flying Angel broadsheet; Southwick Stack, Skerries, Bardsey, Smalls, South Bishop, Skokholm, Longstone. and Coquet light ships and Morcambe Bay lightvessel; no Trinity House Superintendent at Holyhead from 1974.
Format:: Archive Item
Extent:: 1 file
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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)