Name Trinity

TRINITY is the former light vessel NUMBER 15, built for Trinity House by Philip & Son at Dartmouth in 1954. Her hull is made from riveted steel and she has a cruiser stern and a raked straight stem. She has two decks and two steel masts. From 1989 to 1991, work was completed to convert TRINITY into a permanently moored, residential, outdoor activity centre for forty-four people. Student Neil Jennings won one of three student prizes in the A. J. Bovis Awards for Architecture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1992. His design was to transform the redundant steel-built Trinity House light vessel into a floating headquarters for a children’s charity. The project took eighteen months and was carried out by M.S.C. personnel and skilled craftsmen and volunteers. During this time, more than fifteen tons of extraneous plates and girders were removed and the chain room was gutted to make a suite of showers. TRINITY is now based at Tollesbury in Essex as an activity venue for youth clubs, schools, churches, special needs groups and those wishing to gain sailing qualifications.