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

I found the Trinity House lightvessel history enlightening (sorry about the pun!) as I was unaware that the lightvessels were numbered and moved to named locations. Nearby in Cardiff Bay the LV14 has been saved for posterity. Her last location was Helwick Swatch sandbank off Rhossili, on the Gower Peninsula, was built by Philips of Dartmouth and commissioned in 1953 for duties within coastal waters with Trinity House. In her working life she was stationed in the Bristol Channel at Breaksea, Scarweather, and Helwick.

A fine photo of the Breaksea lightvessel but I'm not sure of the location, possibly the River Dart estuary because she is not on station. [276]