Name Light Vessel 14 Cost £80,685 Fate Sold, 1991 Launched 22 September 1953 | Ordered September 1951 Yard number 1246 Type Lightvessel Draft 4.6 m Commissioned 27 November 1953 | |
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Lightship 2000 helwick cardiff bay
Lightship 2000 (Welsh: Goleulong 2000) was a restored old red Lightvessel with a cafe and chapel on board situated in Cardiff Bay. During the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay, the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation called together the churches in Cardiff to discuss the role of Christianity in the Bay. Lightship 2000 was the result of these discussions.
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History
The ship was launched in 1953 and from that year until 1989 it was a working lightvessel in a number of locations around the UK, ending its working life at Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula to warn of the Helwick Swatch, a treacherous sandbank. It was purchased in 1993 and refurbished as a floating Christian centre.
The ship closed in 2013 and in May 2015 it left Cardiff. It is planned to restore the ship, and for it to become a floating museum at Newnham on Severn.
Chaplains
The Rev'd Peter Noble, former Moderator of the United Reformed Church Wales Synod, took over the post in March 2012 and since the closure of the ship continues to serve as Chaplain to the Bay.
Rev'd Monica Mills, a URC Minister, served as chaplain of Cardiff Bay until early 2010. Mills died on 1 December 2010.