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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) |
| Displacement: 600 t |
| Authority:
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin |
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Year of construction:
1954
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Shipyard:
Philip & 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 lightfloat
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| March 1982 |
the lightship was demanned, the last crew was withdrawn
from the ship |
| 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 25th, 2009 |
The South Rock Lightfloat was permanently withdrawn from station
and replaced by a port-hand lateral superbuoy at 1130 today. GANNET
was towed off station South Rock by CIL tender ILV GRANUAILE to
Dun Laoghire. It was offered for sale by CIL in Dublin or Belfast.
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March 13th, 2010
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The lightvessel was obviously sold. It was towed from Don Laoghire
to London, where it arrvied today.
If anyone has news, I would be grateful for an e-mail.
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