Lightship 2000 Explained

Lightship 2000 (Welsh: Goleulong 2000) was a restored old red lightvessel with a cafe and chapel on board situated in Cardiff Bay. During the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay, the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation called together the churches in Cardiff to discuss the role of Christianity in the Bay.[1] Lightship 2000 was the result of these discussions.

History

The ship was launched in 1953 and from that year until 1989 it was a working lightvessel in a number of locations around the UK, ending its working life off Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula to warn of the Helwick Swatch, a treacherous sandbank. It was purchased in 1993 and refurbished as a floating Christian centre.[2]

The ship closed in 2013 and in May 2015 it left Cardiff. It was planned to restore the ship, and for it to become a floating museum at Newnham on Severn.[3]

Chaplains

Rev'd Monica Mills, a United Reformed Church minister, served as chaplain of Cardiff Bay[4] until early 2010. Mills died on 1 December 2010.[5]

The Rev'd Peter Noble, former Moderator of Synod of the United Reformed Church Wales, took over the post of chaplain in March 2012.

External links

51.799°N -2.452°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lightship 2000 page in the Cardiff Bay website . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512152506/http://www.cardiffbay.co.uk/attractions/the_lightship.htm . 12 May 2011 .
  2. Web site: The Ship . Goleulong 2000 Lightship . 20 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140420011045/http://www.lightship2000.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2 . 20 April 2014 . Cardiff . dead.
  3. Web site: Cardiff Bay's Much-loved Helwick Lightship is Saved from the Srapyard. Penarth Daily News. 20 March 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20160703132752/https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/cardiff-bays-much-loved-helwick-lightship-is-saved-from-the-scrapyard/ . 3 July 2016. 18 May 2015 . dead.
  4. Web site: Cardiff to serve as hub of European Church Communication . Anglican Communion News Service . 14 March 2006.
  5. Web site: News of Monica's death from her final church. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317084817/http://www.lymurc.org.uk/news/2011/01/the-revd-monica-mills/ . 17 March 2012 .

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