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The company proposed a dock of around 1,000 yards (910 m) long and of 14 acres (5.7 ha) in area. In response, the Hull Dock Company promoted a rival scheme; both were put to Parliament and the Dock Company obtained an Act in 1861. [124] [note 18] The Hull Dock Act of 1861 sanctioned the building of a new dock on the Humber foreshore.
USS Constellation (1854) For other ships with the same name, see USS Constellation. USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855. She was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853.
Navigation Acts. The Navigation Acts, or more broadly the Acts of Trade and Navigation, were a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce with other countries and with its own colonies. The laws also regulated England's fisheries and restricted foreign—including Scottish ...
The Hull triple trawler tragedy was the sinking of three trawlers from the British fishing port of Kingston upon Hull during January and February 1968. A total of 58 crew members died, with just one survivor. [1] The three sinkings brought widespread national publicity to the conditions in which fishermen worked, and triggered an official ...
J. B. Hartley. John Bernard Hartley (3 September 1814 – 14 December 1869) was a British civil engineer, son of Jesse Hartley the Liverpool docks engineer. He was engineer on the Hull Railway Dock, and Victoria Dock, and other works, and was instrumental in promoting the Birkenhead Docks on the Mersey. He retired in 1861 due to ill health and ...
The Beverley and Barmston Drain is the main feature of a land drainage scheme authorised in 1798 to the west of the River Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.The area consisted of salt marshes to the south and carrs to the north, fed with water from the higher wolds which lay to the north, and from inundation by tidal water passing up the river from the Humber.
USS. Merrimack. (1855) USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (also known as "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack ") in the first ...
Lillian Bilocca (née Marshall; 26 May 1929 – 3 August 1988) was a British fisheries worker and campaigner for improved safety in the fishing fleet as leader of the "headscarf revolutionaries" – a group of fishermen's family members. Spurred into action by the Hull triple trawler tragedy of 1968 which claimed 58 lives, she led a direct ...