Liverpool Grain Storage and Transit Company ("LGST")' 1968 Knottingley built grain barge SPURN LIGHT is seen inbound for Gladstone lock from Eastham exactly forty years ago today, on 16th April 1984.

Built for Spurn Shipping Co. Ltd; 14/6/1971 sold to Richard Hodgson & Sons Ltd of Beverley; 1974 sold to Bishops Wharf Carrying Co. Ltd. (of Warrington ); 26/4/1976 sold to LGST and fitted with a funnel; 1985 sold to Wheatcroft Ltd. of Runcorn;1986 sold to C & R. Oatway of Wakefield; laid up at Goole c2000

Her current situation is unknown