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Commissioners of Irish Lights

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from 1948 to 1970. Because of the automation of lighthouses, and the extensive use of helicopters by the Commissioners, CIL now need only one tender in service. The ship has diesel-electric propulsion and is extremely manoeuvrable, and is therefore ideal for her role in maintaining the automatic
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An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts for promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious: and for erecting, repairing and maintaining Light Houses round the Coast of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for defraying the Charge
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An act to enable the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, to erect, repair and maintain Light Houses round the Coasts of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for defraying the Charge thereof.
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An Act to alter the Constitution of the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, and for other Purposes connected with that Body and with the Port of Dublin Corporation.
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The Commissioners of Irish Lights is a cross-border body, with its headquarters in Dublin. The current flag of the Irish Lights features lightships and lighthouses between the arms of the
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In the Lighthouse Service the cap badge originally was a St George's Cross surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves but from 1970 the St Patrick's Cross has been used.
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it oversees the coastal lights and navigation marks provided by the local lighthouse authorities, the county councils and port authorities.
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with responsibility purely for the port, and created the new 'Commissioners of Irish Lights' to act as the general lighthouse authority.
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These acts, modified by the Irish Lights Commissioners (Adaptation) Order, 1935, remain the legislative basis for the CIL.
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Part of the fleet moored against Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin in 1971 (From L to R: Irish Lights Tenders (ILT)
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has the oldest nearly continuous light in Ireland, originally a signal fire or beacon tended by the monk
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The Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin was established under an act of the
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re-established the lighthouse in 1667. He granted a patent for the erection of six lighthouses to
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navigation buoys in Irish waters. In 2003 she was involved in the recovery of the fishing boat
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An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious
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transferred the lighthouses around the Irish coast to the Revenue Commissioners.
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General Lighthouse Authority for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
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defaced with the commissioners' badge and those in the Republic fly the
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was in service between 1970 and 2000, and she was preceded by the first
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The commissioners currently have only one light tender in service named
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in the fifth century. Monks continued to maintain the light until the
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Grieve, Martin; Miles Li; Jarig Bakker; Rob Raeside (19 July 2008).
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c. lxxxi) reconstituted the Port of Dublin Corporation into the
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Irish Lights Department, Port of Dublin Corporation
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Index

Irish Lights Board

Statutory corporation
General lighthouse authority
Dún Laoghaire
Navigational aids
www.irishlights.ie
Irish
general lighthouse authority
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
islands
lighthouse
Ireland
light dues
Republic of Ireland
transatlantic

Hook Lighthouse
Hook Head
Dubhán
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
King Charles II
Robert Reading
Hook Head
Baily Lighthouse
Howth Head
Charlesfort
Kinsale
Queen Anne

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