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Trinity House

British  

noun

  1. an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Under the new Trinity House Agreement, Rheinmetall will build a new factory in the UK to produce barrels for artillery guns – something the UK stopped doing more than a decade ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

Around the rest of the British Isles the two other main lighthouse authorities, Trinity House and the Northern Lighthouse Board, have also been carrying out upgrades.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2020

Instead of killing him, Hargreaves wrote to Trinity House and got himself transferred, to a platform on the North Sea where he spent seven years.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2020

Mason describes his quarter-hour piece as a "guided tour" around the main Trinity House lighthouses, from the Solway Firth to the Farne Islands, many of which he visited to notate the patterns of their flashes.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2010

In 1871, the Duke of Edinburgh, Master of the Trinity House, had returned to England, and on the 24th of June took his place as President at the annual banquet.

From Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by Edward VII

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