Lillian Bilocca

  • Triple Trawler Disaster: Hull’s Headscarf Revolutionaries

    Triple Trawler Disaster: Hull’s Headscarf Revolutionaries

    7th October 2022

    In the ‘Dark Winter’ of 1968, three Hull trawlers perished in as many weeks. Fifty-eight men died in the Triple Trawler Disaster, triggering a transformative safety campaign led by Lillian Bilocca. Brian W Lavery reflects on the story… Marching on…

  • Safety at sea campaigner Lillian Bilocca remembered

    Safety at sea campaigner Lillian Bilocca remembered

    4th February 2022

    On 22 January, Hull’s Hessle Road celebrated one of its own when a plaque was unveiled at the former home of Lillian Bilocca, who led the successful campaign for better safety at sea after the 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster. Her biographer…

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