Channel Islands prepare for disaster
It was the week in which the Channel Islands’ food and fuel supplies were running so dangerously low that the occupying forces had no choice but to mount a raid on mainland France, Jersey’s deputies voted to build Corbiere lighthouse, and, in Guernsey, work began on constructing the current airport.
Victor Hugo published Toilers of the Sea, his work of fiction set in an dedicated to Guernsey, and Terence Alexander, who would go on to play Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac, was born.
And emergency services from Guernsey, Jersey, and France, teamed up for an ambitious exercise in preparation for a maritime disaster.