The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster

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The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster

The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster

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Skipper Len Whur was Lillian’s fiercest critic, accusing her of putting jobs at risk and ‘interfering in something she knew nowt about’. When the sinking of the Ross Cleveland, skippered by 41-year-old Phil Gay, was announced, the bosses, who had earlier snubbed the women, now wanted to meet.

Hull’s mural depicting Lillian Bilocca, who led a campaign to improve safety conditions on board North Sea trawlersUpon the four women’s return to Hull, Denness told the waiting press: “We have achieved more in six weeks than the politicians and trade unions have in years.” Good news for Rita Eddom, with her little brother, reading about Harry’s survival – papers had dubbed her the ‘36-hour widow’. The women had led one of the biggest and most successful civil disobedience campaigns of the 20th century. 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 as "Big Lil". [6] Headscarf Revolutionaries trawler safety campaign [ edit ]

The Headscarf Revolutionaries thrills with the dangers of the high seas; inspires with the passion of women who changed their world, and reveals the vivid life inside one of history’s most vital communities. All four women received threats by post and telegram. Copies of poison pen letters and other threats kept by Blenkinsop in files were lost in the floods of 2004. The others kept some of theirs which were later published.Incredibly, the St Romanus, skippered by 26-year-old Jim Wheeldon, had no radio operator. More incredibly, this was not illegal. If a skipper had a telegraphy certificate, he could double up. But the wheelhouse VHF radio had a reach of up to only 50 miles, whereas the UHF radio in the operator’s room could reach worldwide. The St Romanus did not have a radio operator on board — amazingly this was not illegal. On February 4, only one man (the mate, Harry Eddom) was to survive the sinking of the Ross Cleveland, off Iceland. Fifty-eight men perished across 26 days.



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