Sandettie is a lightvessel station located at Sandettie Bank in the North Sea. It is one of the 22 coastal weather stations whose conditions are reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast.[1] The vessel is named after her location on the Sandettie Bank, due north of Calais and due east of the South Foreland. The ship has no engine and is not crewed. Its lights are powered by solar panels.
 LV Sandettie being moved by MV Alert
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Namesake | Sandettie Bank |
| Operator | Trinity House |
| Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (1947–1948) |
| Launched | 1949 |
| Out of service | 1989 (previous vessel) |
| Identification | MMSI number: 992351029 |
| Fate | Museum ship (previous vessel) |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Lightvessel |
| Displacement | 450 tons |
| Length | 47.5 m (156 ft) |
| Beam | 7.65 m (25.1 ft) |
| Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft) |
| Speed | 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) |
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| Location | Sandettie Bank |
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| Coordinates | 51°09′21″N 1°47′07″E / 51.155917°N 1.785367°E |
| Operator | Trinity House  |
| Racon | T |
| Active light | |
| First lit | 1989 |
| Focal height | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Range | 15 nmi (28 km; 17 mi) |
| Characteristic |  Fl W 5s |
The previous Sandettie lightship was taken out of service in 1989 and is now a museum ship moored in Dunkirk harbour museum (fr).[2][3] In 2019 Simon Armitage published a collection of poems named Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic after the lightvessel's weather station.[4]
External links
edit- The optical and acoustic signaling scheme and the radio-signal scheme of Sandettie lightvessel, ie the signal pattern of the light signal, the fog horn and the radio stationin accordance with NOTICE TO MARINERS 2/2012 C1 Sandettie Light Vessel No.2/12 C1, by Order Captain R. H. Barker, Director of Navigational Requirements, Trinity House, London, EC3N 4DH, 11 January 2012
- Article about the lightship in the French Wikipedia
- "Notice to Mariners". Trinity House. 11 January 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014.
Observations and Weather
- The detailed, hourly measured values of the lightship Sandettie the last 24 hours of metoffice.gov.uk
- The exact course of the air temperature and water temperature as well as the water height in the area of Sandettie Bank on the web page of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation on the basis of the data of Sandettie Lightvessel
- Weather forecast and wave prediction for the area of the sandbank for skipper from Meteo Consult Marine, (fr)
References
edit- ^ "Sandettie Lightvessel". Trinity House.
- ^ "Story of light-ship Sandettie". MarMuCommerce. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Musée Portuaire de Dunkerque - 1 musée, 3 bateaux, 1 phare... Et même plus !". Musée Portuaire de Dunkerque. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ^ Faber & Faber.
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