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| Ship: | SIREN | | Arrived: | Before 24 Nov 1991 | | Departed: | After 24 Nov 1991 | | Career: | Built in 1960 by J.Samuel White, Cowes as buoy/lighthouse tender for Trinity House.
1987 decommissioned and laid up in Harwich harbour. 16/17 October 1987 hit by drifting former ferry EARL WILLIAM which had broken loose in the hurricane. Bridge wing, workboat, davits damaged Sold soon afterwards for £75,000. [Keepers of the Sea by Richard Woodman]
2010 advertised for sale www.compass-int.com . Registered Kingstown, St Vincent & Grenadines. Equipped for 20 divers. | | Tonnage: | 1,425 gross | | Built: | 1960 | | Type: | Lighthouse vessel | | Owner: | Trinity House | | LR/IMO Number: | 5329918 | | ID | 5329918 |
| Above: Trinity House Lighthouse/buoy tender SIREN seen laid up at Heybridge. Date: 24 November 1991.
Source: Mersea Museum / John Jones | 
| Above: Bradwell Power Station across the Blackwater from a snowy Kingsland Beach. Trinity House SIREN laid up in the river. Date: cFebruary 1991.
Source: Mersea Museum / Rose and Len Harvey Collection |
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