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{{Short description|British barque}}

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'''''Revolving Light''''' sometimes written as '''''Revolvinglight''''' was a [[barque]] launched from the Turner Shipyard in [[Harvey, New Brunswick|Harvey Bank]], [[New Brunswick]] on 15 September 1875. The ship was {{convert|196|ft}} long and had a tonnage of 1,338 tons. The ship was the first ship of the Turner Shipyard of [[Gaius S. Turner|Gaius Samuel Turner]].<ref name=SM>{{Cite web|url= https://www.saltscapes.com/roots-folks/1382-the-return-of-the-revolving-light.html |work=Saltscapes magazine |title= The Return of the Revolving Light|last=Carr|first=Denorah|language=en}}</ref>

She was a merchant ship and sailed for 27 years across the world.<ref name=SM />

==Fate==
In December 1902 the ship with a cargo of bones was sailing with captain Helgesen, from [[Buenos Aires]] via [[IJmuiden]], the Netherlands to [[Hamburg]], Germany.<ref name=SV0 /><ref name=hnvdd /> On 18 December she was towed by “Gebr. Wrede” from IJmuiden through the tricky channels off the Dutch coastal islands. During an unexpected storm she floundered on a sandbar near [[Texel]] between [[De Koog]] and [[Eierland]].<ref name=SV0>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000705292:mpeg21:a00013 |work=Scheepvaart |title=Revolving Light |date=20 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=SM /> Tugboat ''Gebr. Wrede'' arrived at Texel with 16 rescued crew members, one crew member was killed.<ref name=RN>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010178561:mpeg21:a0039 |title=Cuxhaven, 20 Dec. |work={{ill|Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad|nl}} |date=23 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref> The ship was in Dutch newspapers reported as a Norwegian ship.

==Aftermath and legacy==
Various items from the ship washed ashore including: a sailor's chest, toys, cow horns,<ref name=AH>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010649336:mpeg21:a0073 |work=[[Algemeen Handelsblad]] |title=Revolving Light |date=21 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref> Koehorens<ref name=SV>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000705295:mpeg21:a00016 |work=Scheepvaart |title=Revolving Light |date=23 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref> sloop, paper from the ship's logbook and small wreckage.<ref name=hnvdd>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010129719:mpeg21:a0110 |work= {{ill|Het nieuws van den dag|nl|De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag}} |title=Texel, 20 Dec. |date=23 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref> Later in month, on 27 December 1902 the ship was completely destroyed during a storm.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010129723:mpeg21:a0179 |work={{ill|Het nieuws van den dag|nl|De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag}} |title=Texel|date=29 December 1902|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref> In February 1903, found items were sold publicly.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110553148:mpeg21:a0106 |work=[[De Telegraaf]] |title=Revolving Light|date=13 February 1903|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref>

===1952 exposure===
Fifty years after the ship wrecked, after heavy winds in 1952, the wreckage was exposed again on the beach.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMHCO02:163857057:mpeg21:a00061 |work= Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche courant |title=De zee knaagt aan Texel|date=5 December 1952|via=[[Delpher]]|language=nl}}</ref>

===Farmhouses===
In Texel farmhouses were built with beams of the ship. These kind of farmhouses needed big timber beams big creating a square of around {{convert|6.5|m}} high, on which the full weight of the roof rested. Later research into these beams showed that they came indeed from the three-masted ''Revolving Light'' from the Turner Shipyard in Harvey Bank. As of 2002 farmhouses like these still exist.<ref name=SM />

===Replica of the vessel===
In the 2000s a replica of the ship was built for the restored wharf at [[New Brunswick]] in Canada.<ref name=SM />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{1902 shipwrecks}}

[[Category:1875 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in New Brunswick]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1902]]
[[Category:Ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:Barques]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of Texel]]
[[Category:1902 in the Netherlands]]