ALBATROSS-Home to Roost!

ALBATROSS the Lightship that was yard No 30 which was built around 1924/5 has now been berthed at a marina on the River Medway, close to the Historic Chatham Royal Dockyards.
She now awaits conversion to be a floating Bed & Breakfast ship, thanks to Simon for the photograph of her under the watchful attached tugs, being towed into position on the Medway.

 ALBATROSS being towed to her berth on the Medway.
She is believed to be the oldest floating ship built in the Leith Shipyards of Henry Robb.

ALBATROSS “Lost now found again”

With the news from one of the crew of the tug Sea Trojan, that was towing the ALBATROSS to her new home on the River Medway, close to the historic royal dockyard at Chatham.


The “oldest” surviving ship from the Leith Shipyards of Henry Robb is to be used as a Houseboat/bed & breakfast on the river, what a great use for an old ship that has not only stood the test of time but the worst weather over many years that the volatile Irish sea could throw at her.

We wish her new owner well and hope to get some photographs of her to show on the www.leithshipyards.com website where you will see many updates on the ships built in Leith and so much more.

Found- Henry Robb “Oldest” Ship

It looks like we have managed to track down what may well now be the oldest surviving ship built in the Leith Shipyards of Henry Robb.


She is the Lightship ALBATROSS Ship No 30 and built for the Irish Lighthouse commission in 1924, with the help of a German lightship enthusiast we know now that she is still afloat and although without her light lantern she is at a berth in Dublin, Ireland. We hope to have some photographs to show soon.

We will bring more info soon, and you will be able to find out more about this 87 years old ship on the website at www.leithshipyards.com where a lot more info and photographs have now been put onto the site.