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Caroline in 1983 & 4

Listen here for a Caroline Jingle Montage

Out to the Knock Deep past the last manned light vessel at Tongue this is LV13 the 3rd lightship from the Philip & Son yard in 1952. She was sold in 1991 & is now a bar restaurant with accomodation in Hamburg

LV13 stayed at Tongue until LV1 returned from refit more detail of which can be seen in Eurosiege

For LV18 the last manned Trinity House light ship navigate from RNI 1999

Tongue Tower had been abandoned by the MoD in 1947 it's caretaker crew being taken off as parts of the fort fell into the sea

Over the year the years scavengers removed many fittings

In 1966 a visiting team from Radio Essex at Knock John alerted Margate Lifeboat with billowing black smoke from burning cable insulation to retrieve the copper

They were told those on-board represented the fictitious Radio Albatross, questions were asked in the House of Commons

Tongue was to finally succumb to the elements over the night of 21/22nd February 1996 when a force 11 storm finally toppled the buckled southern leg taking the top house with it away all that remains today is 6 meters of the northern leg

To find out more on the Thames Eastuary Forts navigate from Fort Fax