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Entries tagged

‘disaster’

EventDate
Guernsey steamship SS Rossgull is wrecked 5th December
A Guernsey funeral takes place in Cornwall 4th December
Two cargo ships collide on their way to Guernsey 2nd December
President Garcia is re-floated in Saints Bay 20th July
Point Law runs aground off Alderney 15th July
Alderney residents lined the coast to watch Titanic pass 10th April
Oil rig stranded at Grandes Rocques 1st February
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Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George

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The first lighthouses were built on the Casquets

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Guernsey Post Office was established

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The Beatles played at Candie Gardens

On this day in Jersey...


  • Nude sunbathers sentenced to eight days' hard labour
    Two girls were fined £3 and sentenced to eight days' hard labour after they stripped off on a Jersey beach.
  • Pilot killed in private plane crash
    A pilot was killed when both engines of the plane he was flying from Jersey to Guernsey lost power and he crashed into an outbuilding.

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