High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NLV Pharos is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man. NLV Pharos and her sister ship, THV Galatea (2006) were buit by Stocznia Remontowa SA, Gdansk, Poland as part of a 38 million contract. THV Galatea serves the same role for Trinity House on the coast of England, Wales and the Channel Islands. NLV Pharos is the tenth NLB vessel to carry the name, replacing the ninth Pharos in March 2007. The first Pharos, which operated as a lighthouse vessel from 1799 to 1810, was a simple wooden sloop 49 feet long (approx 15 metres) and 18 feet wide (approx 5 1/2 metres). Pharos was the great lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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