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Saturday 18 November 2017

Finnish lightship Relandersgrund 1888-

Helsinki. Finland, August 2017

Built by Crichton&Co. AB, Turky in 1888, sent to Rauma, Finland in July 1914, according to a story sunk when Russian crewmembers were celebrating the revolution in the Gulf of Finland in 1917, salvaged and repaired at Tallinn, Estonia in 1918, went to Helsinki, Finland and converted into the reserve lightship Reserv I, decommissioned on 1037, renamed Vuolle converted into an expedition vessel during 1937-1978, sold to be broken up in 1978 but saved and nowadays floating restaurant Displacement 168 tons and as length 27,10 metres.