Photo gallery of Irbenskiy lightship

Long way from the Navy to the Museum. Photos, except for historical, by ourselves (CC BY-NC-SA)

 

➲ Lightship on her position in the Baltics

➲ "Irbensky" as depot vessel in Lomonosov

➲ Decommissioned and almost destroyed

➲ Towed and repaired in Kronstadt

➲ Memorial Lightship in Kaliningrad

 

Lightship on the day of public opening, 15 Dec. 2017 vs. as it looked like in 2010-2013

 

Lightship at Pregolya quay by the World Ocean Museum, where other memorial vessels are exhibited. Opening of the lightship for visitors on 15 december 2017.

 

Irbenskiy lightship after the hull repairs in Kronstadt

 

Irbenskiy lightship under hull repairs at the Kronstadt Shipyard

 

Irbenskiy lightship and the tug are getting ready for a journey from Lomonosov harbour to Kronstadt shipyard

 

Decommissioned Irbenskiy lightship, 2009-2012

Aboard the abandoned vessel

 

On the main deck and on the mast

 

#607 Hydrographic Division headquaters on the lightship

 

Life aboard the lightship

 

A perfect scale model of the lightship at the Kronstadt Historic Museum

 

Historic photos

Lighthouses are Sanctities of Seas, 1980. A documentary shot by the Soviet Monistry of Defence. Directed by Pavlova, consultant - col. Basis.

 

Photos from the vessel documents (to be completed)