Cyklop (Lightship)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:40 pm
The lightship is the Cyklop, a wooden vessel built at Kalmar, Sweden in 1843-44. Her tonnage was 37 laester or about 83 tons, on dimensions 21.3 metres long, 5.9 metres breadth, and mean draft 2.15 metres. She was the first Swedish light vessel specially built for that purpose. She was stationed off Falsterborev, a dangerous reef at the south-westernmost point of Sweden. Each year she went out on station either in March or April and was taken off station in November or December, depending on the weather and ice conditions. She had no engine, but sailed by her crew to and from her winter port of Karlskrona, where maintenance jobs were carried out during her lay-off period. Her final fate is not known to my Swedish friend, Capt. Ahlstrom, of Stockholm, to whom I am indebted for this information. The Cyklop was replaced by a newly-built light vessel named Falsterbo in 1855.
Sea Breezes Sept 1969.
Sweden SG595/6.