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Sandettie is a
lightvessel A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship that acts as a lighthouse. They are used in waters that are too deep or otherwise unsuitable for lighthouse construction. Although some records exist of fire beacons being placed on ships in Roman times, t ...
station located at Sandettie Bank in the
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. It is one of the 22 coastal weather stations whose conditions are reported in the
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. The vessel is named after her location on the Sandettie Bank, due north of Calais and due east of the
South Foreland South Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England. It presents a bold cliff to the sea, and commands views over the Strait of Dover. It is centred northeast of Dover and 15 miles south of North Foreland. It includes ...
. The ship has no engine and is not crewed. Its lights are powered by solar panels. The previous Sandettie lightship was taken out of service in 1989 and is now a museum ship moored in Dunkirk harbour museum (fr). In 2019
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published a collection of poems named ''Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic'' after the lightvessel's weather station.Faber & Faber.
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in accordance with NOTICE TO MARINERS 2/2012 C1 Sandettie Light Vessel No.2/12 C1, by Order Captain R. H. Barker, Director of Navigational Requirements, Trinity House, London, EC3N 4DH, 11 January 2012 * Article about the lightship in the French Wikipedia * Observations and Weather
The detailed, hourly measured values of the lightship Sandettie the last 24 hours
of metoffice.gov.uk
The exact course of the air temperature and water temperature as well as the water height in the area of Sandettie Bank
on the web page of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation on the basis of the data of Sandettie Lightvessel
Weather forecast and wave prediction for the area of the sandbank for skipper
from Meteo Consult Marine, (fr)


References

Lightships of the United Kingdom Lighthouses of the English Channel Lightship stations {{UK-lighthouse-stub