Ackergillshore, Old Lifeboat House And Slipway
Lifeboat Station (19th Century), Slipway (19th Century)
Site Name Ackergillshore, Old Lifeboat House And Slipway
Classification Lifeboat Station (19th Century), Slipway (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ackergill Harbour; Ackergill, Lifeboat Station; Ackergill Haven; Ackergill Life Boat Pier
Canmore ID 9214
Site Number ND35SE 75
NGR ND 35879 54513
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9214
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND35SE 75 35879 54513
Lifeboat Station [NAT] (at ND 35876 54495)
OS GIS ep. 4.
For Ackergillshore (Ackergill) Harbour (ND 3587 5455), see ND35SE 64.00.
For adjacent ice house, see ND35SE 64.01.
Location formerly entereed as ND 35869 54481 and ND 35860 54529.
Ackergillshore, old lifeboat house, 1878. William Brims. The earliest extant lifeboat housein the Highlands, Simple rubble boatshed with charming original RNLI roundels depicting a crew in sou'westers pulling at the oars of a lifeboat. The ferro-concrete slipway of 1910 was the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain.
E Beaton 1996.
The Ackergill lifeboat station was established in 1877, and housed the first RNLI lifeboat to operate in this vicinity. It closed in 1932.
A ferro-concrete slipway was built in 1909-10 to facilitate launching; this unusual feature remains in existence.
N Leach 1999.
The location assigned to this record remains unverified. The lifeboat house is probably to be equated with the building that is depicted at ND 35879 54513, opposite the S end of the slipway.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 April 2006.
Slipway [NAT] (at ND 35857 54544)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, December 2010.
