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Technical
data
| Length o.a.: 134 feet (ca. 40.84 m) |
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Length: 119
feet (ca. 36.27 m)
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| Beam:
25 feet (ca. 7.62 m) |
| Draught:
15 feet (ca. 4.57 m) |
| Displacement: 345 tons |
| Authority:
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin |
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Year of construction:
1955
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Shipyard:
Philip & Son Ltd., Dartmouth, Devon, England
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Yard-No.:
1269
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| Contract
price: 102,203 £, Profit 14,693 £ |
| Material:
steel |
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History
| January
1953 |
ordered by
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Dublin
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| April
22nd , 1955 |
launched
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| June
21st, 1955 |

handed over
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| July 14th, 1974 |

Daunt station |
| May
9th, 1975 |
decommissioned
and sold to New Ross Harbour Commission as a floating oil berth/pilot
station
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| March
1998 |
sold
to French owners and towed to Paris |
| Today |

Today it is marked BATOFAR and used as a floating diskotheque
in Paris, opposite to no. 11 Quai François Mauriac in the 13th
Arrondissement at the river Seine
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| Service |
Visitor
address:
Quai François-Mauriac
75013 Paris
Tel: 01 53 60 17 42
Website: www.batofar.org |
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