Greenwich Light Vessel Automatic

Greenwich Light Vessel Automatic

Greenwich Light Vessel Automatic is the name of a lightvessel in the English Channel, off the coast of East Sussex. It is one of the 12 coastal weather stations whose conditions are automatically reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast. The name of the vessel derives from the fact that is located on the Greenwich (or Prime) Meridian.


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