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ILV Granuaile 111 Belfast Harbour Marina

ILV ( Irish Lights Vessel ) This is my wee walk round the Irish Lights vessel the ILV Granuaile 111, moored at on Victoria Channel alongside the Belfast SSE Arena just beside the Belfast Harbour Marina. This is the Granuaile's second appearance at the Belfast Maritime Festival. The ILV Granuaile 111 Is an advanced multi functional positioning vessel. Her primary function is to position and service essential sea traffic sea buoys. These off shore buoys serve as important navigational aids for shipping around the coast of Ireland. The buoys warn of sandbars reefs sunken wreckage or any other off shore maritime hazard new shipping routes. The Granuaile has a helicopter platform to help service lightships and buoys. This helicopter platform is also available to aid sea rescues. Granuaile III The ILV Granuaile in 2010 The commissioners currently have only one light tender in service named ILV Granuaile. The hull was built at Galați shipyard, Romania, in 2000 and fitted out at Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands. She is registered in Dublin and has a 2,625 GROSS tonnage (GT), length overall of 79.6 metres (261') beam of 15.99 metres (52'6") She is the third vessel named Granuaile to have served the Commissioners. Granuaile II was in service between 1970 and 2000, and she was preceded by the first Granuaile 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 navigation buoys in Irish waters. In 2003 she was involved in the recovery of the fishing boat Pisces, which sank off Fethard, County Wexford, in July 2002.