Telegram to MOD from SNOWI - 10th December 1971 - Evacuation sitrep
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Title
Telegram to MOD from SNOWI - 10th December 1971 - Evacuation sitrep
FCO 63/882 item 167 page 88/89
Subject
Evacuation
Description
Outline of shortfalls of evacuation efforts on 8th December; danger that the operation will collapse owing to inadequacy of emergency response and loss of confidence within population; possibility of internal security incident.
Creator
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)
Publisher
The National Archives (UK)
Date
10th December 1971
Rights
These files are made available by The National Archives via Discovery, the full entry for this item can be found here.
The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
Format
JPG
Language
English
Type
Telegram
Identifier
Curating_Crises_#497
FCO 63/ 882
Coverage
The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.
Telegram Item Type Metadata
Date Sent
10th December 1971
To
MOD
From
SNOWI (Senior Naval Officer of the West Indies)
Files
Collection
Citation
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Telegram to MOD from SNOWI - 10th December 1971 - Evacuation sitrep,” Curating Crises, accessed March 16, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/497.
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Item Relations
| This Item | Relation | Item: Telegram 194 from Mitchell to FCO - 10th December 1971 - Second day of evacuations |
| This Item | Relation | Item: Telegram 182 from Mitchell to FCO - 9th December 1971 - Problems with Evacuation |
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