This June hurricane which touched the north coast of Venezuela was the earliest known to that region and the only one to pass south of the island of Trinidad in 50 years of record. The system had an estimated speed of 120km/hr and stuck the south western part of Trinidad within the region of Cedros. There were 13 deaths and substantial property damage in Trinidad with 300 homes destroyed in Erin. 60 Derricks belonging to the Trinidad Petroleum Company had fallen and been destroyed. Oil was flowing over the countryside from 20 wells and storage tanks.

On the 10th October 1847 a disastrous hurricane over the island. Although the island was stuck by a hurricane in 1790, the perception of the occupants at the time was that the location that the location of the island was outside the range of storms that were frequent in the Northern Antilles at the time (Woodcock, 1867). Hence, the construction of buildings didn’t take into consideration the possible destructive impacts of high winds and heavy rainfall that comes along with storms and hurricanes (Schwartz, 2015).

Montserrat is one of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean, 40 km southwest of Antigua. Sixteen km long, with an area of 102 square km, the island compromises three mountain ranges. Soufrière rises to 901 m