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Technical
data
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Length o.a.:
134 feet (ca. 40,85 m)
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Length: 119,6
feet (ca. 36,45 m)
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| Beam:
25 feet (ca. 7,62 m) |
| Draught:
15 feet (ca. 4,57 m) |
| Displacement:
517 tons (fully loaded) |
| Authority:
Trinity House, London |
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Year of construction:
1939
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Shipyard:
Philip & Son, Dartmouth, Devon, England
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Yard-No.:
850
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| Tender
price: 27,207 £, profit: 5,147 £ |
| Material:
steel (riveted) |
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History
| June
1937 |
ordered by Trinity House, London. No. 95 was the last pre-war
lightvessel built at Philip & Son
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| May
31st, 1939 |
handed over to Trinity House, London
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| 1939 |
Outer Gabbard station
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| August
10th, 1972 |
first vessel in the new Fall station
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| 1981
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sent for automation
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| 1994/95
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the first ship to be converted to solar power
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| June
20th, 1995 |
placed at the Inner Dowsing station, later moored at South Goodwin
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| July
1999 |
Dry docking & repair at Milford Haven Ship Repairs
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| January
2001 |
back at the Inner Dowsing station
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September
2004
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Trinity House sold the lightship for 30,000 Pound Sterling by
auction
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| October
16th, 2004 |
the
tug MURIA towed the lightship from Harwich to her new home at
the Port Werbourgh Marina in Hoo at the River Thames.
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December 2004
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The lightship was for sale at Sothebys for 110,000 Pound Sterling.
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| 2008 |
It is told,
that the lightship was sold, but still can be found in the Port
Werbourgh Marina in Hoo.
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| July 23rd, 2009 |
Today the ship was towed to its new berth in the Trinity Buoy
Wharf in London. There are plans to use it es a recording studio
in the future.
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| 2011 |
In 2006 producer Ben Phillips discovered the lightship for sale
in Kent and brought it to London and transformed it into a floating
recording studio permanently moored at Trinity Buoy Warf, East
London. 520sq ft. live room with natural light, high ceiling and
excellent acoustics.
Visitor address:
Lightship 95
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Place
London E14 OJW
Internet: www.lightship95.com
If someone
has news or a photo of the ship how it looks today, I would be
grateful for an e-mail.
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