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was laid down in a north-east and south-west direction, 
which they called the moorings. He was on board a 
vessel that night, expecting every moment to be swamped. 
They said in that neighbourhood Brixham was a little 
place at one end of the world, but they felt that they 
ought to bring it out, make it more prominent, and show 
the Government that it and other ports were without 
harbours of refuge. He therefore begged to move the 
following resolution :—“ That in view of the great want of 
harbour accommodation round the coast of the United 
Kingdom, we pray that Her Majesty’s Government will, 
without delay, carry out the recommendations of the 
Select Committee of last session, and thus prevent the 
continuance of a state of things which, while crippling the 
resources of the country, and annually injuring a great 
industry, fills the papers with terrible disasters, leaving 
hundreds of widows and orphans to excite the sympathies 
of the country.” 
Mr. SAUNDERS (Brixham) seconded the resolution. As 
Mr. Smith had remarked, there were 180 vessels belonging 
to Brixham, and there was only harbour accommodation 
in spring tides for from forty to sixty, and in neap tides 
for from twenty to thirty; all the rest had to ride to 
moorings in the outer roads, where they were exposed to 
the full fury of the easterly gales. In a gale which 
occurred something like six years ago, six vessels were 
totally lost on the rocks, fourteen were two months in 
harbour repairing, and then were driven right up into the 
main street. 
Mr. ROGER Moore (Bristol) supported the resolution, in 
the hope that the matter would be taken in hand by the 
Government, and that something practical would be done. 
The place he occupied that day would have been filled by 
