Angus HER - NO52NE0002 - ABERTAY LIGHT VESSEL, TAY ESTUARY, NORTH SEA

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NameABERTAY LIGHT VESSEL, TAY ESTUARY, NORTH SEA
NRHE Card No.NO52NE8018
NRHE Numlink 270223
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Documentary Record Only
Site Condition Destroyed
Details Site of a light vessel. This steel engineless lightship was built at the Caledon Shipyard, Dundee, and put on station in July 1939. She was requisitioned in May 1945 and repositioned to mark the end of an offshore swept channel ('Gap A'), but was repositioned in the Tay in early 1946. In 1971 she became the first lightship in Europe to be automated, being re-termed a 'light float' and painted black (instead of red) in consequence. She was replaced by a high focal plane buoy in 1984, and towed to Harwich to serve as a test rig for Trinity House automation. She was scrapped in spring 1992.
Last Update06/01/2023
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