Trinity House, London (January 2007)
A meeting at Trinity House circa 1808 The Corporation of Trinity House is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters (with the exception of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). It is responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids such as lighthouses, lightvessels, buoys and maritime radio / satellite communication systems. Trinity House is also the official Deep Sea Pilotage Authority providing expert navigators for ships trading in Northern European waters. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 797 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2848 × 2144 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 794 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (846 × 639 pixel, file size: 104 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A meeting at Trinity House as drawn by Augustus Pugin Senior and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermanns Microcosm of London (1808-11). ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 794 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (846 × 639 pixel, file size: 104 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A meeting at Trinity House as drawn by Augustus Pugin Senior and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermanns Microcosm of London (1808-11). ...
Map of Sealand and the United Kingdom, with territorial water claims of 3nm and 12nm shown. ...
Eddystone Lighthouse, one of the first wavewashed lighthouses For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ...
LV-11 (origonaly British lightship Trinity House) is docked in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as Breeveertien serving as a restaurant. ...
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Master of the Corporation
The Master of the Corporation (now a merely honorary title) is the Duke of Edinburgh. Previous Masters of Trinity House have included the diarist Samuel Pepys and the Duke of Wellington, and Admiral William Penn (father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania). Other prominent individuals in Britain, often connected with commercial shipping or the Admiralty, have been associated with Trinity House, including Winston Churchill, who gained his status as an Elder Brother of Trinity House as a result of his position as First Lord of the Admiralty before and during World War I. Often, especially on naval-related forays during the Second World War, he was seen in Trinity House cap or uniform. Winston Churchill also had a THV named after him THV Winston Churchill. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten), styled HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (born June 10, 1921), is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...
Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. ...
Italic text His Grace Field Marshal the Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
Admiral Sir William Penn, 1621–1670 by Sir Peter Lely, painted 1665–1666. ...
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Governance Trinity House is ruled by a court of thirty-one Elder Brethren, presided over by a Master, at present HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. These are appointed from 300 Younger Brethren who act as advisors and perform other duties as needed. The Younger Brethren are themselves appointed from lay people with maritime experience, mainly naval officers and ships' masters but also harbourmasters, pilots, yachtsmen and anyone with useful experience.[1] The mayor of Penzance taking part in the re-enactment of the announcement of the death of Nelson from the Union Hotel. ...
The Duke of Edinburgh is a dukedom associated with Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron receiving a loving cup from Margaret Brown for his rescue of RMS Titanic survivors Main article: Seafarers professions and ranks Captain is the traditional customary title given to the person in charge of a ship at sea. ...
In many countries, a harbourmaster is an official responsible for enforcing the regulations of a particular harbour or port, in order to ensure the safety of navigation, the security of the harbour and the orderly operation of the port facilities. ...
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Trinity House — headquarters of the Corporation of Trinity House The present Trinity House, was designed by architect Samuel Wyatt and built in 1796, it has a suite of five state rooms with views over Trinity Square, The Tower of London and The River Thames. Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807) was a member of a leading family of 18th and 19th century English architects. ...
History The Corporation came into being in 1514 by Royal Charter granted by Henry VIII. The first Master was Thomas Spert, captain of Henry’s flagship Mary Rose. The name of the guild derives from the church of Holy Trinity and St Clement, which adjoined the king's new dockyard at Deptford.[2] For many years, Trinity House depots were maintained in Harwich, Great Yarmouth, Penzance, Swansea, East Cowes and on the Thames (closed some time ago). In December 2002 it was announced that the Great Yarmouth, Penzance and East Cowes depots would close, leaving only Harwich and Swansea remaining, plus the two large tenders Patricia and Mermaid. 1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the ship of the same name, see Royal Charter (ship). ...
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Mary Rose depicted on the Anthony Roll, a survey of Henry VIIIs navy, completed in 1546 The Mary Rose was an English Tudor warship of the carrack type and one of the first to be able to fire a full broadside of cannons. ...
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Arms of Harwich Town Council Harwich (IPA, /hÉ‘Ëˈɹɪtʃ/) is a town in Essex, England, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east. ...
Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ...
Penzance Harbour and surrounding area as seen from the air Penzance (Cornish: Pensans) is a civil parish and port town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK. Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614,[2] it has a population of 21,168[1] people and...
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Operational responsibilities / role of the corporation Trinity House has three main functions: The Corporation also inspects buoys provided by local harbour authorities, and provides a Deep Sea Pilot Service. It no longer provides local pilots for entering ports. Contrary to popular belief Trinity House is not (and never has been) part of HM Coastguard although it does work closely with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
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LV-11 (origonaly British lightship Trinity House) is docked in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as Breeveertien serving as a restaurant. ...
Eddystone Lighthouse, one of the first wavewashed lighthouses For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ...
Buoys redirects here. ...
This article is about maritime crew. ...
Signal flag H(otel) - Pilot on Board A harbour pilot guides ships through the narrow, shallow and dangerous coastal waters between a harbour and the open sea. ...
Her Majestys Coastguard is the agency of the government of the United Kingdom concerned with co-ordinating rescue at sea. ...
The Maritime and Coastguard Agencys Logo The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is a UK government agency working to prevent the loss of lives at searesponsible for implimenting maritime safety policy. ...
Trinity House is financed from “Light Dues” levied on commercial shipping calling at ports in the United Kingdom.
Lighthouse stock Trinity House maintains 71 lighthouses ranging from isolated rock towers like the Eddystone to mainland towers like Southwold lighthouse. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Pulpit Rock at Portland Bill Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) of Portland stone which forms the most southerly part of Isle of Portland, and hence the county of Dorset. ...
Eddystone is a group of rocks about 14 miles off the coast of England southwest of Plymouth, on which there is an important lighthouse (Eddystone Lighthouse) indicating the approaches to the English Channel. ...
Southwold Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Southwold, Suffolk, England. ...
All lighthouses have been automated since November 1998, when the UK's last manned lighthouse, North Foreland in Kent, was converted to automatic operation. The North Foreland and South Foreland are two chalk headlands on the Kent coast of southern England, overlooking the Strait of Dover. ...
Lighthouse automation began as far back as 1910 thanks to an ingenious invention of Gustaf Dalen. His sun-valve was fitted in a number of lighthouses powered by acetylene gas. The vital component was a black metal rod, which was suspended vertically and connected to the gas supply. As it absorbed the sun's heat, the rod expanded downwards, cutting off the gas during the day. Nils Gustaf Dalén (November 30, 1869 - December 9, 1937) was a Swedish inventor and founder of AGA. Laureate for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 for his work on automatic gas regulator controlled buoys. ...
Automation in the modern context began in the early 1980s, made possible firstly by the construction of lantern top helipads at remote rock lighthouses, to enable the rapid transfer of technicians to a lighthouse in the event of a breakdown - and secondly, by the development of remote control technology which enables all lighthouses and lightvessels to be monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Central Planning Unit, in Harwich, Essex.
Equivalent bodies in other parts of the British Isles: This article explains the archipelago in north-western Europe. ...
The Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL) is the body that serves as the lighthouse authority for all of the island of Ireland plus its adjacent seas and islands. ...
Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...
Cape Wrath lighthouse The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), previously known as the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses, is the organisation responsible for marine navigation aids around the coastal areas of Scotland and the Isle of Man. ...
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Ensign The Ensign of Trinity House is a British Red Ensign defaced with the shield of the coat of arms (a St George's Cross with a sailing ship in each quarter). The Master and Deputy Master each have their own flags. [3] The Red Ensign, as currently used by the United Kingdoms Merchant Navy The Red Ensign of the United Kingdom in use in London The Red Ensign or Red Duster is a flag that originated in the early 17th century as an ensign flown by the Royal Navy. ...
See also Her Majestys Coastguard is the agency of the government of the United Kingdom concerned with co-ordinating rescue at sea. ...
International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (or IALA for short) is a non-profit organization founded 1957 to collect and provide nautical expertise and advise. ...
Notes - ^ (pp 8 & 9) Quarterdeck (PDF). McBooks Press (March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-06.
- ^ Moorhouse, Geoffrey (2005). Great Harry’s Navy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp169,170. ISBN 0-297-64544-7.
- ^ britishflags.net- Trinity House
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - Trinity House
- International Association of Lighthouse Authorites
- English Lightships
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