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Light Vessel 72

1903 shipsLightships of the United KingdomShips built on the River WearUse British English from August 2020
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Light Vessel 72 (also known by its identification number LV72) was a light vessel of Trinity House, a British lighthouse authority. Constructed in Sunderland in 1903 she served as a navigational beacon in the British Isles until the Second World War. From June 1944 she was positioned off Normandy to mark a mineswept shipping lane used for the Operation Overlord landings. After the war she was stationed in the Bristol Channel until sold for scrap in 1973. Saved by the intervention of a scrapyard manager, she has lain on a mud bank in Neath, Wales, ever since. Several proposals have been made to restore her.

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N 51.6504 ° E -3.8382 °
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LV72 "Juno"

A465
SA10 6EX , Coedffranc
Wales, United Kingdom
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