Length o.a.: 137.25 feet (ca. 41.83 m)

Length: 119 feet (ca. 36.27m)

Beam: 25 feet (ca. 7.62 m)

Draught: 15 feet (ca. 4.57 m)

Authority: Trinity House, London

Year of construction: 1952

Shipyard: Philip & Son, Dartmouth, Devon, England

Yard-No.: 1235

Contract prize : 68.390 Pounds

Material: steel

Lightning apparatus: 8 x 100 V 350 W

Fog signal : 4 Electric Multi Catoptric, each 5 KW, Typ: Gardener Diesel

Crew: 8 men

History

February 1951	ordered by Trinity House, London
May 21st, 1952	launched
October 31st, 1952	handed over, initially on Outer Gabbard station
1952 - April 1959	Tongue and East Goodwin station
1966-1978	Humber station
1978-1988	Outer Gabbard station
December 9th, 1988	decommissioned
1988-1991	laid up in Portsmouth
July 27th, 1991	arrived in Portsmouth after sale to Pound´s Marine Services Ltd., Portsmouth for 20,000 £
September 1995	sold to the new owner Pieter Bunder for use as a fish restaurant in Amsterdam, but plans failed
2003	Today the lightship can be found in the Grasweg 53-82 in North-Amsterdam. It is in very good condition.
July 1st, 2008	Today the lightship has been sold to a new owner: Jeff de Wolf. The ship will stay on its current place for at least the next 3 years, and after that, it will be relocated at a new location and converted into a home for the family of the new owner. The condition of the ship is reasonably well. Unique about the ship is that everything, apart from the interiour of the deckhouse, is still complete and intact. Even in the rooms of the crew the life-vests can be found. Later on this year there will be a website about LV12 under the name: www.Lightship12.com Something about the owner: Jeff de Wolf is a creative working in advertising and above off all a lightship freak, with 3 other friends he already bought LV94 which is nowdays used as a event-center.The LV94 is as well located in the north of Amsterdam. If anyone has news, I would be pleased about an e-mail.