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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 846248
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846248
NO75NW 44.10 72121 56970
Lifeboat Station [NAT] (shows two buildings)
OS map (GIS, ep. 3).
The first lifeboat station at Montrose was built by the Town Council close to the lower leading light; it was handed over to the Harbour Board in 1901 and passed to the RNLI in 1869/70. A new lifeboat house and slipway were then built close by. This was itself improved and enlarged to form a double boathouse in 1900/1901. The boathouse was enlarged and the slipway lengthened in 1926, further impriovements being effected in 1938 and 1964.
The lifeboat was moored in the river from 1972, but the old lifeboat station remained in use until 1981. It was demolished in April 1998.
N Leach 1999.
This building is not indicated on the current OS (GIS) AIB.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 April 2006.
