Engineering:Revolving Light
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Revolving Light |
| Out of service: | 19 December 1902 |
| Fate: | wrecked at Texel, the Netherlands on 18 December 1902 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Barque |
| Tonnage: | 1,338 ton |
| Length: | 196 ft (60 m) |
| Crew: | 17[1] |
Revolving Light sometimes written as Revolvinglight was a barque launched from the Turner Shipyard in Harvey Bank, New Brunswick on 15 September 1875. The ship was 196 feet (60 m) long and had a tonnage of 1,338 tons. The ship was the first ship of the Turner Shipyard of Gaius Samuel Turner.[1]
She was a merchant ship and sailed for 27 years across the world.[1]
Fate
In December 1902 the ship with a cargo of bones was sailing with captain Helgesen, from Buenos Aires via IJmuiden, the Netherlands to Hamburg, Germany.[2][3] On 18 December she was towed by “Gebr. Wrede” from IJmuiden through the tricky channels off the Dutch coastal islands. During an unexpected storm she floundered on a sandbar near Texel between De Koog and Eierland.[2][1] Tugboat Gebr. Wrede arrived at Texel with 16 rescued crew members, one crew member was killed.[4] The ship was in Dutch newspapers reported as a Norwegian ship.
Aftermath and legacy
Various items from the ship washed ashore including: a sailor's chest, toys, cow horns,[5] Koehorens[6] sloop, paper from the ship's logbook and small wreckage.[3] Later in month, on 27 December 1902 the ship was completely destroyed during a storm.[7] In February 1903, found items were sold publicly.[8]
1952 exposure
Fifty years after the ship wrecked, after heavy winds in 1952, the wreckage was exposed again on the beach.[9]
Farmhouses
In Texel farmhouses were built with beams of the ship. These kind of farmhouses needed big timber beams big creating a square of around 6.5 metres (21 ft) high, on which the full weight of the roof rested. Later research into these beams showed that they came indeed from the three-masted Revolving Light from the Turner Shipyard in Harvey Bank. As of 2002 farmhouses like these still exist.[1]
Replica of the vessel
In the 2000s a replica of the ship was built for the restored wharf at New Brunswick in Canada.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Carr, Denorah. "The Return of the Revolving Light" (in en). Saltscapes magazine. https://www.saltscapes.com/roots-folks/1382-the-return-of-the-revolving-light.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Revolving Light" (in nl). Scheepvaart. 20 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000705292:mpeg21:a00013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Texel, 20 Dec." (in nl). Het nieuws van den dag (nl). 23 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010129719:mpeg21:a0110.
- ↑ "Cuxhaven, 20 Dec." (in nl). Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad (nl). 23 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010178561:mpeg21:a0039.
- ↑ "Revolving Light" (in nl). Algemeen Handelsblad. 21 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010649336:mpeg21:a0073.
- ↑ "Revolving Light" (in nl). Scheepvaart. 23 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000705295:mpeg21:a00016.
- ↑ "Texel" (in nl). Het nieuws van den dag (nl). 29 December 1902. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010129723:mpeg21:a0179.
- ↑ "Revolving Light" (in nl). De Telegraaf. 13 February 1903. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110553148:mpeg21:a0106.
- ↑ "De zee knaagt aan Texel" (in nl). Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche courant. 5 December 1952. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMHCO02:163857057:mpeg21:a00061.
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