great to see a topic on light vessel 72,, I run the website
www.lv72juno.com and an admin on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/787159187984566/as already mentioned there is currently a fund raising campaign to try and purchase and return lv.72 to Sunderland to be restored
www.gofundme.com/SOSOLI have been researching about LV.72 for some time and obviously it lead me to her builder, and the other lightvessels that they built List of lightvessels built for Trinty House at Monkwearmouth yard.
LV no.70 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #109) 275 tons launched 15th December 1902
LV no.71 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #110) 275 tons launched 11th February 1903
LV no.72 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #111) 275 tons launched 30th March1903
LV no.73 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #112) 275 tons launched 2nd May 1904
LV no.77 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #140) launched 17th October 1911 she was an automated LV completed in 1911
would anyone have photos of these launches?
I know on the day LV70 was launched, she was taken undertow by tug and collided with another steamer that was coming down the slipway in the next yard
today I learnt that the strand shipbuilding company built lv66 in 1895,, on the strand slipway,,,, newspaper cuttings show that john crown operated this company