Lightship Kittiwake

Built 1897/98 by Allsup & Sons, Preston; length 96 feet breadth 24 feet, depth 12 feet; construction steel hull sheathed with teak and fastened with naval brass bolts tapped, teak planking, sheathed with muntz metal; one watertight bulkhead; steel mast and fixed lantern; mizzen mast carrying day mark; cost £7,900; the first Irish lightvessel to have an engine to work the windlass and the first fitted with oil engines for the siren; sold in 1956 to Hendron Brothers, Dublin and scrapped.