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The dock was extended by about 10 acres (4.0 ha) after the Hull Dock Company was taken over by the North Eastern Railway, with work beginning in 1894. This work included the construction of slipways for boat repair. [23] The new dock, St Andrew's Dock Extension, was connected at the west end via a channel; the slipways were at the far west end ...
Damaged trawlers after return to St Andrews Dock, Hull. It was known that enemy intelligence had been heavily active in the region. [9] Torpedo boats, a recent development of the major navies, had the potential to damage and sink large warships and were very difficult to detect, which caused psychological stress to sailors at war.
Dairycoates is located roughly halfway between the town centres of Hull and Hessle, at the western edge of the Hessle Road urban area, and its junction with the A1166; Gipsyville is immediately to the west, and contains the Dairycoates Industrial Estate; the two areas are separated by the Hull to Selby railway line which runs to Paragon station and the Hull Docks.
English: Russian Outrage on the Hull fishing fleet on 22 October 1904, otherwise known as the 'Dogger Bank incident', the 'North Sea Incident', or the 'Incident of Hull', showing shell-damaged returned trawlers in St Andrews Dock, Hull.
9 January 1935 – The trawler, The Edgar Wallace, was coming into port at St Andrews Dock in Hull, when it hit a sandbank and capsized. Water rushed into the cabins and 15 members of her crew drowned, with the three survivors swept overboard, but being rescued by passing ships. [144]
1883 – St Andrew's Dock is established. [1]: 308 1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded. [25] 1885 Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating. Alexandra Dock built. [1]: 308 Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication. [26] 1886 – Synagogue established. [27] 1887 East Park opens. First women's rugby match is played in Hull. [1 ...
They had two children – Ernest (b. 1946) and Virginia (b. 1950). The family lived in a terraced house in Coltman Street, Hull. Lillian Bilocca had three sisters. [2] [3] Her father, husband and son all worked at sea on the Hull fishing trawlers and Bilocca worked at an on-shore fish factory, filleting the catch. [3] [4] [5] She became known ...
The museum, originally known as the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping, opened in 1912 in Pickering Park. [2] It moved to its current location, the Dock Offices building, in 1974. [3] The Dock Offices building is so-named as it is the former headquarters of the Hull Dock Company, which operated all docks in Hull until 1893. [3]