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NLV Pole Star
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NLV Pole Star is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
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Name | NLV Pole Star |
Operator | Northern Lighthouse Board |
Port of registry | Leith |
Builder | Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow |
Yard number | 709[1] |
Laid down | 28 July 1999 |
Completed | 15 September 2000 |
Homeport | Oban |
Identification |
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Status | in service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Lloyd's + 100A1, LA, + LMC, UMS |
Type | Buoy / Lighthouse Vessel |
Tonnage |
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Displacement | 1,174 tonnes |
Length | o/a: 51.52 m; B.P: 44.00 m |
Beam | 12 m |
Height | Air Draught 25 m |
Draught | 3.2 m |
Depth | to Upper Deck: 5.00 m |
Propulsion | Cummins-Wärtsilä CW8L170 - 3 × 920 kW AC Diesel-electric dynamic positioning system, 2 × azimuth thrusters, 2 × tunnel bow thrusters |
Speed | 12 knots |
Boats & landing craft carried | Workboat: Sea Rover 5.5 m |
Capacity | 15 × Single Berth Cabins, 2 × Twin Berth Cabins |
Complement | 6 × Officers, 9 × Ratings |
Notes | [2] |
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Pole Star was joined by a new vessel, NLV Pharos in March 2007, which replaced the previous vessel of the same name.[3] Although the headquarters of the NLB is in Edinburgh, both vessels can be serviced by a workbase in Oban on the west coast.