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Technical
data
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Length: 114
feet (ca. 34.75 m)
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| Beam:
26 feet (ca. 7.92 m) |
| Draught:
12 feet (ca. 3.65 m) |
| Displacement:
342 tons |
| Authority:
Humber Conservancy Board |
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Year of construction:
1959
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Shipyard:
Cook, Welton and Gemmell, Beverley, Yorkshire, England
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Yard-No.:
937
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| Contract
price: 98.843 £ |
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| Material:
steel |
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| Populsion:
4 Gardener 2 LW Diesels |
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| Anchor:
Mushroom anchor |
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| Crew:
7 men changing every two weeks |
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History
| June
2nd, 1959 |
blest by priest
and launched
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June 28th,
1959
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commissioned
SPURN station
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| May
29th, 1961 |
collision with the Hull trawler Loch Seaforth
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| July
5th, 1961 |
collision
with the Ostend trawler Sea Lady
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| October
17th, 1966 |
collision
with the Hull trawler Steed Fame
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| December
24th, 1982 |
no light on
the lightship for 5 hours because of a mistake of the crew
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| December
19th, 1984 |
visit by
the Archbishop of York
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| December
11th, 1985 |
decommissioned
SPURN station
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| 1987 |
sold to Mr.
Roger Smith and restoration for 1.500.000 GBP
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May 1988
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the ship
became the club home of the Beaucette Yacht Club in Guernsey,
Canal Islands and tourist attraction, renamed to "Beaucette Lightship"
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| September
12th, 1988 |
tourist attraction in Conwy, North Wales
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| October
12th, 1990 |
purchased for the Milford Haven Port Authority |
| October
20th, 1990 |
 
tourist attraction in Milford Haven Marina |
| March
14th, 1991 |
 
renamed to "Haven lightship" |
| July
1997 |
sold to Irish tourism investors |
| December
2001 |
laid up in Bear Iceland, Bantry Bay, of Co. Cork in Ireland and
later in Waterford and offered for sale |
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June 1st,
2007
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Good news - from today the lightship has new owners, who are planning
to live on it and to start an alternative healing center on it
(such as Reiki, Crystal Healing, Sound Healing, Aromatherapy,
etc.). For more details please see: http://www.lightshiptherapies.net
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| August
2007 |
The Sharpness
Shipyard & Docks was selected to do the work on the lightship.
But first the lightship has to be towed from Ireland to the UK
and this means - paperwork! The problem with lightships is, that
they are not a ship as such and so they are not registered and
classified - but they need to to be towed. Stressful times!
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| November
14th-16th, 2007 |
 
The lightship
was picked-up by the tug Sea Trojan in Waterford (Ireland) and
towed to the Sharpness Shipyard in Gloucester (UK).
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| January
6th, 2008 |
 
Here in Sharpness
the lightship will stay for the next 5-6 month for restoration
and conservation work. Any volunteers? :-)
If someone
has news, I would be grateful for an e-mail.
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