History:
1908 commissioned
1908-1909 "Vyl" station
03.12.1909 at 23.45 p.m. the lightship stranded in a hurricane at the
west coast near Nymindegab, after the anchor cable broke, a crewmember
was killed
May 1910 salvage of the lightship through the rescueship "Ægir" and
repair at the Rasmus Møller Værft in Fåborg
1911-1912 "Vyl" station
1914-1915 "Læsø Trindel" station
1916-1920 "Skagens Rev" station
1921-1925 "Læsø Trindel" station
1926 "Skagens Rev" station
1936 repair and modernisation
1943-1945 during WWII the ship was damaged when a minesweeper rammed
an underwater mine near to the lightship station. All windows and the
glass of the lamp house broke. The repair was executed at the Ring-Andersen-Werft
in Svendborg. Since here was a shortage of electricity at this time,
the wharf used the power supply of the ship for the supply of the shipyard
secretly
Approx. 1985 decommissioned
and sold to the entrepreneur Thomsen and the architect Jan Rode, who
planned to use the lightship as a casino and restaurant ship in Århus.
Because of the lack of authorisation, their plan failed
1993-1994 sold to Mr. Glydencrone, restaurant ship in Neksø, Bornholm
1994 sold to the new owner Erik Hansen in Roskilde, restaurant ship
in Korsør
1996 sold to London, where it also should have been used as a restaurant
ship
01.07.1996 the Danish tug "Sveasund" from Svendborg towed the lightship
from Korsør via the Kiel Canal to London, when water ran into the lightship.
Since the Dutch law prohibits, that the train of barges sailed through
the islands, they decidid to bring pumps from Terschelling, but this
could not manage the quantity of water and the ship sank near to the
Netherlands. The insurance with the Øernes Gensidige Søforsikring should
have been 4 million DKK. A diver examination didn't confirm any big
damages at the ship.
21./22.07.1996 the swimming crane "Taklift 6" of the Dutch
company Smit Tak salvaged the wreck from 12 m of depth, since the wreck
endangered shipping. At the rescue, the lighttower was torn off and
the hull was pushed in. On a pontoon, the ship was brought to Hook van
Holland and was scrapped at a shipyard.
