View from SSE showing SSE front of Lifeboat station with boatbuilding yard in background

Description View from SSE showing SSE front of Lifeboat station with boatbuilding yard in background

Date 7/12/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 771614

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Arbroath Harbour, Angus This shows the lifeboat shed and slipway on the west side of the harbour. At that time the lifeboat was kept in the shed, and launched as required. To the left of the shed is one of the two boat-building yards. When required, launching ways were laid over the piles in front of the yard. Arbroath harbour was busy in the 1970s and 1980s with fishing boats, and had two boat-building yards, producing wooden boats. Since then the yards have closed, and the local fleet has shrunk dramatically. The use of the inner basin as a wet dock ended several years ago, and it is now fully tidal. The harbour at Arbroath has a complex history, but took its present form in 1841-6, when a new rail-linked outer harbour was built, and in 1871-7, when an inner wet dock was made out of the old harbour. The 1871-7 works also included the construction of a patent slip for ship repair. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/68/39

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/771614

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