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TRINITY is the former light vessel NUMBER 15, built for Trinity House by Philip & Son at Dartmouth in 1954. Her hull is made from riveted steel and she has a cruiser stern and a raked straight stem. She has two decks and two steel masts. From 1989 to 1991, work was completed to convert TRINITY into a permanently moored, residential, outdoor activity centre for forty-four people. Student Neil Jennings won one of three student prizes in the A. J. Bovis Awards for Architecture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1992. His design was to transform the redundant steel-built Trinity House light vessel into a floating headquarters for a children’s charity. The project took eighteen months and was carried out by M.S.C. personnel and skilled craftsmen and volunteers. During this time, more than fifteen tons of extraneous plates and girders were removed and the chain room was gutted to make a suite of showers. TRINITY is now based at Tollesbury in Essex as an activity venue for youth clubs, schools, churches, special needs groups and those wishing to gain sailing qualifications.
Built for Trinity House by Philip & Son at Dartmouth as light vessel NUMBER 15
Served as light vessel in Bristol Channel and Morecambe Bay
Purchased by the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust (FACT)
Converted into permanently moored, residential outdoor activity centre for young people
Based at Tollesbury in Essex as activity venue for youth clubs, schools and others
Programme of repairs and renovation completed
A Sustainability Grant of £1000 towards the cost of deck repairs was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships
Sweet, Fay, Architects Journal Naval Architecture, pp18-19, 12 August 1992
If you are the owner of this vessel and would like to provide more details or updated information, please contact info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk
National Historic Ships UK acknowledges the financial support of its sponsors