Sandettie Lightvessel
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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. 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.
The previous Sandettie lightship was taken out of service in 1989 and is now a museum ship moored in Dunkirk harbour museum (fr). In 2019 Simon Armitage published a collection of poems named Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic after the lightvessel's weather station.
Related articles
- fr:Sandettié (bateau-feu) — Article (more detailed than this one) about the lightship in the French Wikipedia
External links
- in 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
- . Trinity House. 11 January 2012. Archived from on 27 October 2014.
Observations and Weather
- of metoffice.gov.uk
- on the web page of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation on the basis of the data of Sandettie Lightvessel
- from Meteo Consult Marine, (fr)