Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - A brief history of Trinity House lightvessels . .

Modernisation:- Manned lightvessels were both expensive to maintain, man and administer. In 1908 there were 54 lightvessels on station. In 1937, there were 45 lightvessels on station; as most were withdrawn for the war and many not re-established, the numbers have decreased since.