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Lightship Finngrundet (1903)
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The Lightship Finngrundet is a lightvessel built in 1903 and now a museum ship moored in Stockholm, Sweden.[1]
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Namesake | Finngrund banks, Baltic Sea |
Builder | Gefle Mekaniska Verkstad AB |
Laid down | 1903 |
Decommissioned | 14 July 1969 |
Status | Museum ship on 4 June 1970 at Stockholm |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lightvessel |
Displacement | 264 tonnes empty, 350 fully loaded |
Length | 32.80 m (27.32 m in 1903, lengthened in 1927) |
Beam | 6.85 m |
Draft | 3.2 m (3 m in 1903, draft increased in 1927) |
Propulsion | 4-cylinder reciprocating steam engine, around 130 hp (97 kW) |
Complement | 8 crew |
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