Harwich's ship has finally come in as Trinity House vessel gets a berth

摘要

Fifteen years after it was reprieved from the breaker's yard and 10 years since it was established as a charity, the last of the Trinity House manned light vessels has finally found a home berth in Harwich. The Essex UK port town is synonymous with lightships. In September 2010, MJ covered the story of a dedicated berth being constructed inside the Halfpenny Pier, adjacent to the RNLI lifeboat station. Despite interminable haggling at the local council level, the vessel's owners, the Pharos Trust, have finally won the right to berth there and in mid-May the LV18 was brought alongside the mooring piles by the Felix Arc tug Gray Vixen. This followed months of work bringing the 114ft long, 581 grt vessel up to an acceptable standard to serve as a publicly accessible museum vessel. Trinity House