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1. The Trinity House Vagabond leaving Harwich Pier.
*The Trinity House Vagabond leaving Harwich Pier. The Trinity House pilot ship 'Vagabond' leaving Harwich Pier on 31 March 1986. The Trinity House Operations Control Centre is now located at Harwich...
2. Training of lighthouse personnel at Orchard Yard.
*Training of lighthouse personnel at Orchard Yard. The training lighthouse is located at Trinity Buoy Wharf in Blackwall at the entrance to Bow Creek. It dates from about 1880. For many years, bouys,...
3. Trinity House Pilot Boat 121.
*Trinity House Pilot Boat 121. A Trinity House pilot yacht at full sail in a rough sea. The robustly built hull and generous standard sail plan, combined with a sheltered cockpit,...
4. The fire float Gamma (1911).
*The fire float Gamma (1911). The London Fire Brigade's fire float 'Gamma' (1911) alongside the Fire Station Pier at Blackfriars Bridge in 1954.
5. Sevenstones light vessel, north east of the Scillies.
*Sevenstones light vessel, north east of the Scillies. The Sevenstones light vessel was moored off the Sevenstones Reef, 10 miles north east of the Isles of Scilly. By the 1980s the vessel was unmanned...
6. Dowsing light vessel.
*Dowsing light vessel. This light vessel was built by Philip and Son, Dartmouth, in 1958. She was located 45 miles north of Cromer and 25 miles north east of Mablethorpe...
7. Lifeboat drill at Tilbury.
*Lifeboat drill at Tilbury. The crew of the P&O liner 'Strathnaver' (1931) undergoing lifeboat drill in the 1930s. Tilbury Docks can be seen in the background.
8. Repairing a Trinity House buoy.
*Repairing a Trinity House buoy. Until its closure in the 1980s, Trinity House's Blackwall depot, located at the junction of Bow Creek and the Thames, was responsible for the...
9. Crew of the South Goodwin light vessel.
*Crew of the South Goodwin light vessel. On Saturday 27 November 1954, the South Goodwin Lightship became the first Trinity House lightship to be wrecked. She broke from her two huge sea...
 
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