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Technical
data
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Length: 116.5
feet (ca. 35,50 m)
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| Beam:
25 feet (ca. 7,62 m) |
| Draught:
15 feet (ca. 4,57 m) |
| Authority:
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin |
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Year of construction:
1959
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Shipyard:
Philip & Son Ltd., Dartmouth, Devon, England
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Yard-No.:
1302
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| Contract
price: 131,129 £, Profit 13,739 £ |
| Material:
steel |
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History
| September
1957 |
ordered by Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin
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| April
21st , 1959 |
launched
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| July
15th, 1959 |
handed over
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| 1981
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converted to an automatic light float
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| March
30th, 2001 |
in service on South Rock station
Automatic Lightfloat Kittiwake, currently deployed
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| August 8th, 2002 |
GRANUAILE is reported to have towed the South Rock
Lightvessel KITTIWAKE to the Cork Dockyard at Rushbrooke for dry-docking
and refit on August 8. She has been replaced temporarily by a light
buoy |
| September 2004 |
Kittiwake was removed from her South Rock station
and conducted her mid-term overhaul in Ballyhalbert Bay |
| December
8th, 2004 |
still in service for CIL on South Rock station
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| 2007 |
Decommissioned and sold to a private owner in Dublin.
If anyone has news I would be grateful for an e-mail.
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