22nd November 1888
A Jersey ketch explodes in Bristol
A Jersey ketch carrying 300 barrels of crude oil exploded in Bristol Docks, killing a captain and three others. The ruptured vessel immediately spilled its burning cargo which, despite covering half of the docks, didn’t harm any other vessels. Unfortunately, the heat from it shattered several thousand feet of glass at the General Hospital.
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Other events that occured in November
Poet and bailiff Robert Pipon Marett is born
- Marett had a creative side, and wrote extensively in Jèrriais under the pseudonym Laelius, often in La Patrie, the newspaper he founded.
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Equestrian Simon Laurens is born
- Simon Larens won gold in Team Open Dressage and silver in individual freestyle at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
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Islander makes and emergency landing
- An Islander aircraft set off from Jersey in bad weather and had to make an emergency landing after the engine started surging.
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Edinburgh man is killed in Jersey quarry
- A man from Edinburgh was killed in a quarry in Jersey when he was buried in a landslide.
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