These powered 3 x Corliss 450 BHP engines drive 3 x General Electric Company 2 phase, 2,800 Volt 300 kW alternators.

[10] The 'B' station had a 120-yard (110 m) coal wharf,[4] served by its own fleet of flatiron colliers built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company of Fife, Scotland.

[citation needed] On 4 September 1940 a Kriegsmarine E-boat torpedoed and shelled Fulham V in the North Sea off Cromer.

[11] One crew member was killed and she was beached at Frenchman's Point near South Shields to save her from sinking.

[13][14][6][15][16] Fulham annual electricity output GWh.The CEGB decommissioned the power station in 1978 and sold it for redevelopment.

[citation needed] After the CEGB sold the power station, a private contractor removed and bagged about 1,000 tonnes[17] of hazardous asbestos and dumped it at an approved site in west London.

[18] Residents living close to the power station formed two campaign groups to raise their concerns about the possible risk to public health.

[18] On 28 July 1983 it was the focus of a House of Commons debate on the sale and demolition of redundant power stations.

[18] Conservative MP Martin Stevens, whose Fulham constituency included the power station, told the House that the CEGB had not told the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham it had sold the power station and had no statutory obligation to do so.

[18] The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment, John Gummer, told the House that he gave the CEGB credit for saying "We have been told by the citizens of Fulham and people throughout the country that they would feel more assured if we had full responsibility to control the removal of asbestos from power stations before selling them.

"[18]Gummer stated that the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (COPA) required asbestos to be double-bagged to minimise the risk of contamination or spillage, and that this was monitored.

[18] However, Martin Stevens intervened stating that the contractor had not double-bagged asbestos waste at Fulham, to which Gummer replied that it for the HSE to decide if one bag would suffice.

[18] In the House of Commons the day after the debate Alf Dubs, Labour MP for the Battersea constituency just across the river from Fulham Power Station, asked Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Employment "what representations he has received about the dangers of asbestos caused by the demolition of Fulham power station".

[19] John Gummer replied for the Secretary of State "The Health and Safety Executive is monitoring demolition work at Fulham and the Central Electricity Generating Board has announced that in future it will strip power stations of asbestos before sale.