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Technical
data
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Length o.a.:
137.25 feet (ca. 41,83 m)
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Length: 119
feet (ca. 36,27 m)
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| Beam:
25 feet (ca. 7,62 m) |
| Draught:
15 feet (ca. 4,57 m) |
| Authority:
Trinity House, London |
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Year of construction:
1951
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Shipyard:
Philip & Son, Dartmouth, Devon, England
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Yard-No.:
1223
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| Contract
price: 67,269 £, profit: 3,235 £ |
| Material:
steel (riveted) |
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History
| March
1950 |
ordered by Trinity House
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| August
15th , 1951 |
   
launched
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| 1951-1953 |
Dudgeon station
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| February
1st , 1953 |
broke adrift whilst on Dudgeon station
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| 1953-1962 |
Morecambe Bay station and St. Gowan station
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July 10th,
1962
- August 20th, 1962
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on loan to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to replace the light
vessel PLANET on Bar station
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| 1962-1965 |
Morecambe Bay station and St. Gowan station
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August
6th, 1965
- September 12th, 1965
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on loan
to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to replace the light vessel
PLANET on Bar station
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| 1965-1988 |
Morecambe Bay station and St. Gowan station
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| October 21st, 1988 |
withdrawn from St. Gowan station
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| July 16th, 1991
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arrived in Portsmouth after purchase by Pound´s
Marine Service Ltd., Portsmouth for 20,000 Pounds
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| October 1995 - October 1999 |
 
The new owner
Gus van der Loodt saved the lightship from scrap and towed it
to the repairyard in the Waalhaven in Rotterdam (Netherlands)
to rebuilt it to a maritime restaurant. The rebuilding took approx.
4 years. Bulkheads and machinery were removed, but lantern and
foghorn are still working. After rebuilding was completed, the
lightship was berthed in the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam.
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| June 2000 - October 2002 |
   
Floating restaurant BREEVERTIEN in the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Address:
LV 11 Breeveertien
Wijnhaven opposite to no. 101
NL-3011 WN Rotterdam
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July 2006
until May 2008
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The lightship was for sale and found a couple of new owners
in May 2008.
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| April 23rd, 2009 |
 
This time the new owners are restoring the lightship so that
it can be reopened as a restaurant in summer 2009 again. But first
the lightship was towed from Rotterdam over the Maas to the Van
Grevenstein´s Scheepsverf in Krimpen aan de Lek at the 23rd
of April 2009.
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| May 2009 |
 
Some photos from the last days at the Van Grevenstein´s
Scheepsverf in Krimpen aan de Lek - looks good doesn´t it?
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| November 1st, 2009 |
Today the lightship was reopened as restaurant TINTO. Good luck
for your project and we look forward to our next visit in Rotterdam.
Address:
Restaurant Tinto
op het lichtschip
Wijnhaven 101 t.o.
3011 WN Rotterdam
Tel. 010 8404730
www.restauranttinto.nl
If someone
can help me with photos of the new restaurant, I would be grateful
for an e-mail.
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