This is the former Commissioners of Irish Lights LV ALBATROSS seen alongside North Quay, Arklow in October 2000.
She had been moved to Arklow after spending some months anchored up the coast at Dún Laoghaire as an art feature known as the "Ghost Ship" - hence the luminous paint.
Prior to that she had operated as a Sea Scout training ship since being decommissioned at the end of the 1960s.
The vessel had been built by Henry Robb of Scotland in 1925. Whilst at Arklow her beacon was removed and subsequently installed on North Quay as a feature.
I think the hull was then taken to Dublin. From information received it appears it is now in Rochester Harbour, Kent being converted into a house boat.
Camera: Contax G1 + Carl Zeiss f2.8 90mm Sonnar lens
More 35mm Archive photographs of Lighthouse and Lightships can be found here:
www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Maritime-Heritage-...
