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Registration number
492
Status
Registered
a12admin
Previous names
- 1915 - 1968 Petrel
Details
Function
Service Vessel
Subfunction
Light vessel
Location
Killinchy
Current use
Commercial Activity
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
Yes
Web address
https://www.facebook.com/downcruisingclub/
Construction
Builder
Dublin Drydock Company Ltd, Dublin
Built in
1936
Hull material
Steel
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Number of masts
2
Propulsion
Towed
Primary engine type
None
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
24.00 feet
(7.32m)
Depth
13.48 feet
(4.11m)
Length: Overall
101.93 feet
(31.09m)
Tonnage: Gross
400.00
History
Built 1915 by The Dublin Dockyard Company for the Commissioners of Irish Lights, BALLYDORN is a lightship with a hull of riveted iron and steel plate. She has two steel masts used as steadying sails only. Most of her service life was at Blackwater Bank on the River Blackwater, Wexford. She was sold out of service to Hammond Lane Foundries, Dublin, in 1968 who sold her on to her present owners and she was towed to Strangford Loch in Northern Ireland. As headquarters for a cruising club her interior layout has changed considerably. During one stage in her career, she was renamed PETREL and acquired her present name at a later date. She is a ‘Seabird’ class lightship and is the only one in Northern Ireland.
We are lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, please contact us.
Sources
Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, pp167, Edition 2, 1993
Ball, John, Petrel: A brief history of Down Cruising Club and Lightship 'Petrel', 1977
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