Lightvessels in The United Kingdom - England - Former Lightvessel Stations

Former Lightvessel Stations

• Bar (Mersey Estuary; maintained by MDHB)
• Barrow Deep (Barrow Deep channel, Thames Estuary)
• Black Deep (Thames Estuary)
• Brake (Brake Sand, near Goodwin Sands)
• Bull (Bull Sands, mouth of the Humber Estuary; maintained by Humber Conservancy Board)
• Calshot Spit
• Cockle (North Sea)
• Cork (Cork Bank, off Harwich)
• Corton (North Sea)
• Crosby (Mersey Estuary; maintained by MDHB)
• Inner / Outer Dowsing (North Sea; Inner Dowsing was the last manned lightship station, replaced by the Dowsing lighthouse in 1991)
• Dudgeon (North Sea; the Dudgeon lightvessel was bombed by the Luftwaffe on 29 January 1940. Only one crew member, John Sanders, survived. The incident was the subject of a 1940 British Government propaganda film, Men of the Lightship.
• Edinburgh (Thames Estuary; the name refers to the Edinburgh Channel)
• English and Welsh Grounds (Bristol Channel)
• Falls (Dover Strait)
• Formby (Mersey Estuary, maintained by MDHB)
• Galloper (Galloper shoal, North Sea)
• Girdler (Thames Estuary)
• North / South Goodwin (the South Goodwin vessel was driven onto the Goodwin Sands and wrecked during a severe storm on 27 November 1954, the first Trinity House ship to be lost in this manner. Ronald Murton was the only crew member to be rescued, after clinging to the ship's hull for eight hours)
• Gull (marked the Gull Stream on the Goodwin Sands)- was rammed and sunk on March 18 1929 by the City of York, resulting in the death of Captain Williams of the lightship. In 1947 it was bought for £750 by Thurrock Yacht Club, and towed to Grays to become the club’s headquarters. It was last used as a clubhouse in 1971.The Gull was then abandoned and now suffers from regular acts of vandalism and degradation through river action.
• Gunfleet (Gunfleet Sands, Thames Estuary; replaced by Gunfleet Lighthouse in 1850)
• Hasborough (North Sea)
• Humber (maintained by Humber Conservancy Board)
• Kentish Knock
• Knoll (Smith's Knoll, North Sea) off Norfolk
• Leman and Ower (North Sea)
• Longsand (Thames Estuary)
• Morecambe Bay
• Mouse (Mouse Sand, Thames Estuary)
• Nab (Straits of Dover; replaced by the Nab Tower in 1920)
• Nore (Thames Estuary; the world's first manned lightship, 1731)
• Newarp (North Sea)
• Northwestern (Mersey Estuary, maintained by MDHB)
• Outer Gabbard (North Sea)
• Owers (Owers Bank, off Selsey Bill). Replaced with a beacon. (LV Owers now a wreck in Tel Aviv harbour).
• Royal Sovereign (off Eastbourne; replaced with Royal Sovereign lighthouse 1971)
• Shambles (the Shambles Bank, off Portland Bill)
• Shipwash (North Sea, off Harwich)
• Spurn (Spurn Head; maintained by Humber Conservancy Board. A former Spurn lightvessel is preserved at Hull Marina)
• Swin Middle (Swin Channel, Thames Estuary)
• Tongue (Tongue Sands, Thames Estuary)
• Well (outside The Wash; replaced with buoy 1975)
• Would (North Sea)