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We were delighted to welcome HRH The Princess Royal (Master of Trinity House) to the newly-modernised Lundy North
#Lighthouse
in the Bristol Channel, where she met staff from the project team to learn about the upgraded aid to navigation systems and the challenges overcome!
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As Master of Trinity House and a keen
#lighthouse
visitor, a trip to Lundy Island by HRH The Princess Royal would not be complete without a visit to Lundy South Lighthouse and a tour around the station by our proud team.
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It is with sadness that the Master, the Court and the staff of Trinity House mark the passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
"On behalf of the Court and the staff, we are deeply grateful to His Royal Highness and bid him a peaceful rest.”
Full statement:
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@JamieDMJ
Welcome to the family.
The sea is a harsh mistress, Jamie, so you'd better do some homework:
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Today is
#MerchantNavyDay
, honouring those who kept our island nation afloat during both World Wars and celebrating today's merchant seafarers, responsible for 95% of the UK's imports (including half the food we eat)
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Today is
#MerchantNavyDay
Please join us in thanking the seafarers of our Merchant Navy, all of whom make so much possible for or island nation.
Thank you!
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1 July is World Marine Aids to Navigation Day!
Join us and other aids to navigation authorities around the world to recognise the importance of aids to navigation and the people that keep them operational for the safety of all mariners.
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@SkokholmIsland
We are sorry that this happened. Looking into it, the helicopter is supposed to fly south of Skokholm when flying to Smalls Lighthouse to avoid disturbing the birds. We are now making improvements to the helicopter plan to ensure that pilots are reminded prior to flying.
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Today is HRH The Princess Royal’s birthday.
In 2011 HRH took over from her father as Master of Trinity House; her support and her willingness to explore our far-flung lighthouses have been a welcome constant ever since.
Happy birthday Ma’am.
#PrincessRoyalAt70
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Congratulations to Jack Lowe, the winner of the Lighthouse Calendar Photographic Competition this year, with his entry of Bishop Rock Lighthouse. The 2019 Calendar is now on sale!
Image by Jack Lowe
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THVs Galatea and Patricia carried out a routine lightvessel exchange at Sevenstones over the weekend.
First Officer Paul shared these photos!
Patricia towed a replacement LV from Harwich for Galatea to set up in its Assigned Position; Patricia then towed the other vessel away.
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We remember the Trinity House people who lost their lives and those who buoyed sea lanes, piloted ships and lit the lights, as well as the seafarers who kept supplies moving.
Spare a thought also for the many seafarers working today during a different type of crisis.
#VEDay75
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Every year on 3 Sept,
#MerchantNavyDay
honours merchant seafarers past and present and celebrates their huge contribution to all of our lives.
We at Trinity House thank seafarers everywhere for their essential work and we remain committed to keeping you safe in our waters.
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Here's a great photo sent to us by Andy from our Field Operations East team of the recent repainting of Needles
#Lighthouse
, with THV Galatea in the background
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Today we remember, celebrate and thank the Merchant Navy seafarers who helped keep us afloat during both World Wars and who today work around the clock to contribute to our daily lives and wellbeing.
Thanks to all who fly the
#RedEnsign
!
#MerchantNavyDay
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Today is the start of Maritime Safety Week and Seafarers Awareness Week!
These issues have always been central to our role as a General Lighthouse Authority and maritime charity.
Thank you to seafarers and maritime organisations everywhere!
#MaritimeSafetyWeek
#SeafarersWeek
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Today is the
#DayoftheSeafarer
.
Seafarers around the world, on tens of thousands of ships, are carrying over 90% of the world’s trade, supplying us with the food, fuel and goods we rely upon.
We thank our Seafarers for all they do.
#SeafarersAreKeyWorkers
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Happy birthday to Grace Darling, daughter of Longstone
#Lighthouse
keeper William and one of our most celebrated heroines.
The heroics of this father-and-daughter team in 1838 saved lives from the shipwrecked Forfarshire and rowed them back to the safety of the lighthouse.
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THV Galatea and her crew are working with the helicopter at Longships
#Lighthouse
today, just off the coast at Land's End.
Thanks to Martin, the ship's Captain, for sharing these great photos!
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It is Merchant Navy Day 2023, a day to honour and remember the sacrifices of
#MerchantNavy
seafarers.
Guests from across the UK will attend the
#MerchantNavyDay
Commemorative Service and Reunion, at Trinity House and the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill.
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On
#ArmisticeDay
we remember the service and sacrifice of others, including the many Merchant Navy seafarers who served at sea, and reflect on the enduring need for peace at sea and on land.
The Deputy Master will attend the
#RemembranceDay
Service at the
#MerchantNavy
Memorial.
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Trinity House Vessel Galatea has been standing by the wreck of the Britannica Hav which capsized in the English Channel following a collision. A tug has now towed the wreck away from the shipping lanes towards the French coast [1/2]...
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1 July is World Maritime Aid to Navigation Day!
This is a great initiative announced at IALA's 2018 Conference, and we hope it catches on as a way of celebrating
#safetyatsea
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Trinity House's Apprentice Lighthouse Technician Scott Tacchi is featured on
@BBCNews
with the photos he has taken during his
#lighthouse
visits.
"We are so lucky to be doing this job and see things that nobody else sees - I just wanted to show people."
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A major part of our commitment to maritime UK is our work as a General Lighthouse Authority, alongside our sister GLAs
@NLB_UK
@IrishLights
.
We provide 600+ aids to navigation for
#seafarers
and vessels of all classes, inc.
#lighthouses
, buoys + digital systems.
#MaritimeUKWeek
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Here’s the view from a helicopter visit to Wolf Rock
#Lighthouse
, courtesy of our Local AtoN Officer Steph
#maritimenation
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Remembering those lost in wars, including those lost at sea and serving Trinity House
#ArmisticeDay
#RemembranceDay2017
#LestWeForget
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#OnThisDay
1912 Titanic struck iceberg just before midnight & sank early hours 15th with 1490 souls
#MaritimeNation
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We were very happy to welcome a very special visitor to Longstone Lighthouse today!
HRH The Princess Royal is the Master of Trinity House and today paid her first visit to the
#lighthouse
made famous by Grace Darling's heroism.
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Perhaps now more than ever, we need shipping to help keep us going by transporting food, medicine and other supplies.
So we're working hard and doing our part at sea and on shore to keep shipping and seafarers safe. Here's THV Galatea heading out to sea.
#coronavirus
#covid19
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D-Day was a momentous event with a huge maritime element.
Trinity House established two lightvessels and 73 lighted buoys between England and France, all according to schedule and in spite of the weather.
Read about our part in full at
#DDay75thAnniversary
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Just a reminder that we will be lighting up beacons around the nation for Sunday's commemoration of the end of the First World War. We hope you'll join us!
NEWS: Trinity House lights up for end of WWI
Trinity House is lighting beacons to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Come along and take part on 11 November at 1900hrs!
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Oh buoy!
While we are perhaps best known for our
#lighthouses
, there is a huge amount of work that goes into maintaining over 450 navigation buoys in our waters.
Here's Scully getting a Type 1 buoy into position for the full works at our Harwich buoy yard.
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Trinity House has created
#maritime
-themed education resources to help Key Stage 1, 2 & 3 pupils learn about shipping, seafaring and safety.
Please help us get our free ‘Buoys, beacons and bananas’ resources to as many parents and educators as possible!
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Today is
#MerchantNavyDay
and as always we want to recognise the contribution by
#seafarers
past & present around the world
#maritimenation
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The Trinity House
#lighthouse
#photography
competition is now open, and we're looking for the best lighthouse photographs taken by you! Good luck everybody!
Enter at
Last year's winner was Norman Price for this great shot of Portland Bill.
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We hope seafarers everywhere had a great 2019, and we hope that you all (along with everyone on shore) have a Merry Christmas and a happy 2020!
Please spare a thought for any seafarers working at sea during this period, we're very grateful to you all!
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The beautiful view from Europa Point
#Lighthouse
,
#Gibraltar
; our most southerly station newly re-engineered.
#maritimenation
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It is with great sorrow that the Master, Wardens, Assistants, Fraternity and all the staff of the Corporation of Trinity House mark the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022.
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Ben (THV Galatea’s Captain) shared this photo of the aft deck loaded with 17 buoys ready for deployment at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm project.
The crew spent two days preparing 1,300m of mooring chain into 75m lengths to store in the lower hold.
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Merry Christmas from Trinity House to everyone at sea and on shore, especially those working at sea over the holidays!
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Choppy weather as one of our inspection teams approaches Skerries
#Lighthouse
off the coast of Anglesey!
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We’re looking for your wintry
#lighthouse
scenes for our 2018 Christmas card!
If you have a great
#photograph
you’d like to see on our annual card, please email it to visitor.centre
@trinityhouse
.co.uk by 20 May 2018.
Here's Anvil Point Lighthouse by Andy Farrar!
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We recently completed the replacement of the Channel Lightvessel with the Channel buoy, using THVs Galatea and Patricia. The new Safe Water Mark is our largest buoy type and maintains meteorological/hydrographic monitoring.
Photos: Officers Ryan & Storm
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1 July is World Marine Aids to Navigation Day 2019!
We hope you will join us and
#lighthouse
authorities around the world to help celebrate the role played by AtoNs in global
#maritime
safety.
Please share your favourite AtoNs using
#WAtoNDay
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Continuing their inspection tour, here is our Visiting Committee team at Southwold
#Lighthouse
in Suffolk.
With a stopwatch in hand, our new Director of Navigational Requirements Nigel Hare is learning the ropes from soon-to-be-retired DNR Roger Barker.
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New pics of the works ongoing at Europa Point
#Lighthouse
, Gibraltar: new lights providing safety for the
#mariner
while work goes on
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Iain Lower will join the Trinity House team as our new Deputy Master on 13 Feb!
In the meantime, he's getting out and about with our shore and sea-going teams to learn the ropes and meet our fantastic people! Here he is (right) with Captain Ian McNaught at Nash Point
#Lighthouse
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The
#VisitingCommittee
has been to Bishop Rock
#Lighthouse
.
Thanks to our helicopter flight team at St Just, Land's End, for getting them there and back safely!
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#OnThisDay
1790 1st purpose-built lifeboat 'The Original' launched at South Shields
#MaritimeNation
#SafetyAtSea
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A big success for the Lundy North
#Lighthouse
modernisation works this weekend, as we completed the civil works phase and carried out demobilisation around Saturday's storm.
The first picture shows the last of 80 underslung loads on its way to THV Galatea for passage to Swansea.
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'What do THVs Galatea and Patricia when we see them around our coast?'
They spend a lot of time servicing buoys at sea, often lifting, inspecting, cleaning and putting them back down. Sometimes a buoy needs to come ashore for a full refurbishment, which is what you can see here.
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To make sure that
#shipping
lanes in our waters remain free of hazardous shipwrecks, Trinity House has a duty to mark and sometimes remove obstructive wrecks, using our distinctive Emergency Wreck Buoys
#safetyatsea
#maritimesafetyweek
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Today we are joining so many others on
#RemembranceSunday
to remember those lost at sea and on shore, at Tower Hill's
#MerchantNavy
Memorial from 1030
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#OnThisDay
1824 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
#RNLI
formed by Sir William Hillary
#MaritimeNation
#SafetyAtSea
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The view from the bridge.
Bridge team member Adam shared this photo of THV Patricia lifting the CS1 type 1 buoy in the English Channel on a very calm day, after it had been reported out of position.
Shows just how big our largest buoy types are!
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We are very pleased that our Deputy Master and Exec Chairman Captain Ian McNaught was made a CVO (Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) in HM The Queen’s New Year Honours List. It's a great honour and recognises the work done by him and Trinity House for the benefit of mariners
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The crew of THV Galatea just sent us a great collection of snapshots of their work around our coast
#maritimenation
#careersatsea
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Our Field Operations West team has installed a new LED navigation light at St Bees
#Lighthouse
, Cumbria.
Jim, the team’s Technical Manager, sent us these pics of the work in progress and the finished job.
Old light: uses 750W, lasts 3 months.
New light: uses 90W, lasts 10 years.
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Our Visiting Committee finished today at Sunk Inner
#Lightfloat
on the approach to Harwich.
A good job done!
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The Visiting Committee's glorious view of Beachy Head
#Lighthouse
this morning, from the aft deck of THV Patricia.
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Today is the start of Maritime Safety Week (5-9 July)!
We will be highlighting a few of the ways we help keep ships and seafarers safe and supported as a General Lighthouse Authority and a training and welfare charity.
#maritimesafetymatters
#maritimesafetyweek
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Thanks to Adam, Commander on THV Alert's Port Watch, for this fantastic image of THVs Alert and Galatea alongside our east coast depot at Harwich
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Our inspection team is now making the rounds at our Channel Islands stations, making sure that all systems are running as they should.
Thankfully they've remembered to share a photo or two with us as part of
#maritimesafetyweek
!
Here is Les Hanois
#Lighthouse
, approached by helo.
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NEWS: Trinity House lights up for end of WWI
Trinity House is lighting beacons to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Come along and take part on 11 November at 1900hrs!
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It’s
#MaritimeSafetyWeek
!
Because
#MaritimeSafetyMatters
, we at Trinity House provide 600+ aids to navigation at sea and on shore, including lighthouses, buoys and lightvessels, to assist safe passage for vessels of *all* classes.
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There must be days when seafarers seriously question their career choice......
#SafetyAtSea
#TrinityHouse
#towrope
http://t.co/861DAYTipH
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NEWS: Rear Admiral Iain Lower will succeed Captain Ian McNaught in February 2024 as the Deputy Master and Chief Executive Officer of Trinity House.
“It is a very great honour to be joining Trinity House as its new Deputy Master."
Full story:
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Out and about: keep an eye out for THV Patricia as she carries the Visiting Committee on their annual inspection of our aids to navigation and estate. They've already been to Foxtrot 3 and Sandettie lightvessels!
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Image by Nick C, one of our technicians currently working at our most southerly
#lighthouse
: Europa Point
#Gibraltar
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Our support vessels play a huge part in the
#VisitingCommittee
inspection.
Today THV Galatea and THV Patricia were in attendance at Greenwich
#Lightvessel
. THV Galatea carried the VC party and THV Patricia handed over critical lightvessel spares while en route to the West Coast.
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Today is
#WorldMaritimeDay
, so please join us in thanking everyone at sea and on shore that makes the world's maritime industries so successful and vital.
For the UK, that means over 957,000 jobs, 95% of our trade imports and exports and over £500bn annually!
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#OnThisDay
1987 Herald of Free Enterprise capsized departing Zeebrugge 193 souls lost
#MaritimeNation
#SafetyAtSea
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It’s
#MaritimeSafetyWeek
!
We operate a fleet of vessels in our waters, coordinated and monitored around the clock by our Planning Centre, to carry out wreck location and marking, aid to navigation maintenance, towing, buoy handling and surveying.
#MaritimeSafetyMatters
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During a maintenance visit to the Varne Lightvessel by THV Alert on Saturday evening, Second Officer John took these pictures.
We are grateful that he shared them with us!
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Ever wondered how we manage such a diverse
#lighthouse
estate?
Our Estates Manager writes about how we balance operations with our estate’s many historical, environmental and archaeological designations and requirements.
Bardsey Lighthouse by Linda Norris
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Here are some of our Director of Operations' favourite photos of
#2018
. He thanks all of our dedicated personnel who remain on duty and on call over
#Christmas
- safeguarding shipping and seafarers around our shores
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One of our crew members sent us these photos of THV Alert and THV Patricia working together at the Cork anchorage off Harwich to exchange the new Sandettie Lightvessel for tow down to the Dover Strait.
Thanks James!
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#OnThisDay
1968 world's largest hovercraft, weighing 165 tonnes launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight
#MaritimeNation
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Some more enjoyable scenes of THV Patricia leading the Battle of the Atlantic 80th anniversary convoy on the River Mersey in Liverpool
#BoA80
The Deputy Master and the crew of THV Patricia represented TH and the Merchant Navy at the Battle of the Atlantic 80th anniversary events on Friday in Liverpool, with a variety of events culminating in the March of the Medals and Patricia leading a convoy down the River Mersey
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As the annual inspection tour of our aids to navigation continues, here is our Deputy Master Captain McNaught with THV Patricia's First Officer James on Nab Tower
#Lighthouse
in the
#Solent
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It's not a bad idea to include tides in passage plans
#TrinityHouse
five centuries protecting mariners
#SafetyAtSea
http://t.co/B1zeqnPHBv
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"Without shipping, half the world would starve, the other half would freeze" ICS 2015
#MaritimeNation
#SafetyAtSea
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Today is the start of
#SeafarersWeek
!
We’re celebrating the contribution of
#seafarers
, many of whom make so much of our daily lives possible.
The focus this year is on recognising and thanking the 20,000+ people hard at work in the fishing sector, often facing great difficulty.
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Our east coast Buoy Yard Supervisor Terry snapped this surprisingly rare scene of THVs Galatea and Patricia alongside at Harwich at the same time.
It isn't often that a crew change for both ships happens on the same day at the same location!
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We are proud to promote Maritime Safety Week 2022 (4-8 July), highlighting the brilliant work, whatever the organisation, whatever the role, that keeps
#seafarers
of all stripes safe.
Our aids to navigation and cadet training schemes are a vital part of that!
#maritimesafetyweek
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We had a great evening with
@TheKeepArchives
last night, talking about the building of Beachy Head
#Lighthouse
and being presented with copies of the glass slides we helped secure for posterity
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Now that London International Shipping Week 2023
#lisw23
is concluded, THV Galatea has departed the Pool of London to resume her normal duties at sea.
Thanks to everyone that came along to our showcase on Wednesday!
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We hope you all enjoy the festive season after a long year!
Please spare a thought for
#seafarers
everywhere who continue to keep goods moving around the world, and for those at Trinity House working and on call throughout the holidays to keep those seafarers safe at sea.
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25 June is
#DayOfTheSeafarer
, highlighting 'MARPOL at 50'!
Our support vessel seafarers are a big part of our solution for keeping the marine
#environment
free from shipwrecks and hazards.
Share your pics of
#seafarers
in the marine environment!
@imohq
#OceansWorthProtecting
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THV Patricia's Captain Paul shared these photos of a maintenance job that required a visit to Sevenstones Lightvessel on Sunday, keeping a vital marine aid to navigation in good working order. Thanks Paul!
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We have a
#vacancy
for a Lighthouse Electrical/Mechanical Maintenance Technician at St Just, near Land's End.
To find out more and apply online please go to
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We have completed the modernisation of Mumbles
#Lighthouse
in south
#Wales
, which will provide simplified maintenance and reliable performance that will extend the life of the station for a further 20 years.
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Our Chief Executive Ian McNaught has expressed his gratitude to all Trinity House staff and maritime workers at sea and on shore, all
#keepingBritainsupplied
.
Full statement in link.
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