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Technical
data
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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:
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin |
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Year of construction:
1954
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Shipyard:
Phillip & Son, Dartmouth, Devon, England
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Yard-No.:
1258
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| Tender
price: 95,200 £ |
| Material:
steel |
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History
| September
1952 |
ordered by Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin
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| May
3rd, 1954 |
launched
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| June
17th, 1954 |
left under tow by Irish Lights tender ISOLDA, initially on
Kish Bank station
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| 1980-1981
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converted to an automatic light float
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| March
20th, 2001 |
replaced SKUA on Coningbeg station
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| September 2004 |
ALF GANNET was removed from the Coningbeg station
and underwent a major refit and docking in Cork Dockyard |
| December
8th, 2004 |
Coningbeg station
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| 2007 |
After the Coningbeg station was replaced by a superbuoy on 26/02/2007
GANNET now is the last Irish lightvessel on South Rock station.
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| February 2nd, 2009 |
The lightvessel is for sale
"as is where is" in Dublin or Belfast.
If anyone has news, I would be grateful for an e-mail.
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