page_title: Lightvessel Gedser Rev
section_title: Museum ship
hierarchical_section_title: Lightvessel Gedser Rev / Museum ship
caption_attribution_description: English: Lightvessel XVII Gedser Rev, a decommissioned Lightvessel now ow owned by the National Museum of Denmark and operated as a museum ship in the Nyhavn canal in Copenhagen
context_page_description: Lightvessel No. XVII Gedser Rev is a decommissioned lightvessel built in 1895, now serving as a museum ship in Helsingør, Denmark, having formerly been stationed in the Nyhavn Canal in Copenhagen. It is owned by the National Museum and takes its name after Gedser Rev south of Falster where it was stationed most of its working life.
context_section_description: Lightvessel No. XVII was decommissioned in 1972 and put up for sale at the lightship warehouse at Holmen in Copenhagen. A donation from the A. P. Møller Foundation enabled the National Museum to purchase it. The A. P. Møller Foundation also sponsored the ship's restoration which was carried out at Hvide Sande Shipyard from January 2001 until November 2003.
  The lightvessel's regular home for several years has been the Nyhavn Canal in Copenhagen, Denmark where was open to the public Saturdays from 11 am to 3 pm from June through August. It was maintained by a group of volunteers.
  On 9 May 2018 it was towed from Nyhavn to dock 2 in Helsingør harbor, to be exhibited there for five years.
caption: Lightvessel No. XVII Gedser Rev at Nyhavn in Copenhagen
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