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In 2020 Turriani listed the vessel for sale with a guide price of £700,000. [5] [4] By 2022 it remained unsold and the guide price had been reduced to £595,000. [4] By 2024 the vessel was no longer for sale. [6] In May 2024 the vessel was relocated to King George V Dock to make way for a proposed footbridge. [7] At the King George V Dock in 2024.
The Iris-class buoy tenders were constructed after the Mesquite-class buoy tenders. Hornbeam cost $864,296 to construct and had an overall length of 180 feet (55 m). She had a beam of 37 feet (11 m) and a draft of up to 12 feet (3.7 m) at the time of construction, although this was increased to 14 feet 7 inches (4.45 m) in 1966.
Her keel was laid down on November 2, 1942, she was launched on March 16, 1943, [3] and she was commissioned on August 4, 1943. [4] Her hull was constructed of welded steel plates. As originally built, Ironwood was 180 feet (55 m) long, with a beam of 37 feet (11 m), and a draft of 12 feet (3.7 m). Her displacement was 935 tons.
[3] This is the second Trinity House vessel named Galatea. The first, a paddle yacht built in 1868, served Trinity House until 1895. She was named in honour of HMS Galatea which had recently completed a round-the-world voyage under the command of Queen Victoria's second son, Captain the Duke of Edinburgh, who was Master of Trinity House at the ...
USCGC Mesquite (WAGL/WLB-305) was the lead ship in the Mesquite class of seagoing buoy tenders operated by the United States Coast Guard.She served in the Pacific during World War II, and spent the rest of her Coast Guard career in the Great Lakes.
The buoy deck has 1,335 square feet (124.0 m 2) of working area. A crane with a boom 42 feet (13 m) long lifts buoys and their mooring anchors onto the deck. The crane can lift up to 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg). [19] The ships' fresh water tanks can hold 7,339 US gallons (27,780 L; 6,111 imp gal). [21]
USCGC Kukui (WLB-203) is the third cutter in the Juniper-class 225 ft (69 m) of seagoing buoy tenders and is the third ship to bear the name. She is under the operational control of the Commander of the Seventeenth Coast Guard District and is home-ported in Sitka, Alaska.
Light vessel no. 3, Jenni Baynton (from 1962 until 1965), Tyne III (1911) Owers The Owers, off Selsey Bill: Trinity House: English Channel: Light vessel no. 3: Replaced with a beacon. LV Owers now a wreck in Tel Aviv harbour. [citation needed] Roaring Middle 52°58′38″N 0°21′5″E: The Wash: Replaced Bar Flat LV; replaced with buoy 1919 ...