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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ABERTAY |
75207 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1877 |
10/09/1877 |
22/09/1877 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Lightship
| Wood No Propulsion 2 masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| James Roney, Arbroath |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / 117 nrt / |
88.8 ft |
19.6 ft |
10.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
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| Engine detail |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Trustees of the Harbour of Dundee |
Dundee |
05/10/1878 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Lightship for station at Abertay Sands, outer Tay estuary.
22/9/1877 delivered under tow from Arbroath to Dundee
16/10/1877 installed on station
1939 withdrawn from service and laid up when the new ABERTAY went on station.
c1940 requisitioned by the Admiralty as possible blockship and remained in lay-up, at Woodhaven Pier
9/1944 sold for £50 to Tulloch & Strachan, builders and contractors (still under requisition)
1945 sold to a broker at Tayport and moved to Woodhaven Pier
3/1946 for sale by Admiralty for demolition
10/1948 again for sale (no offers by 1/1949), some piecemeal demolition for firewood continued
22/11/1949 attempts to tow the remains off the pier unsuccessful (owner intended to then blow up the remains with explosives)
[last report found] |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1949 |
Dismantled |
| Disposal Detail |
| Part dismantled at Woodhaven Pier 1948-1949 |
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