Peterhead, Harbour Street, Lifeboat Station And Slipway
Lifeboat Station (20th Century), Slipway (20th Century)
Site Name Peterhead, Harbour Street, Lifeboat Station And Slipway
Classification Lifeboat Station (20th Century), Slipway (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peterhead Harbour, Lifeboat House
Canmore ID 120139
Site Number NK14NW 153
NGR NK 13602 45899
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120139
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Peterhead
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK14NW 153 13602 45899
Location formerly cited as NK 1350 4583.
See also NK14NW 128.00.
Lifeboat Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.
Peterhead, Harbour, Lifeboat Station (NK c. 126 455). This sheet-metal timber-lined structure is said to have been built in the 1920s. There are proposals to re-site as a museum.
Information from Dr Robin Evetts, Historic Scotland, February 1997; visited by RCAHMS photographer (JM), 26 February 1997.
The first lifeboat house at Peterhead was built in 1865, in Greenhill Road, on the E side of the N Harbour. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1900-1, but ceased use in 1908, and has since been demolished. The lifeboat was kept afloat until 1911, when a new lifeboat house and slipway were built on a site to the W of the S Harbour. From 1912, this housed the second lifeboat, which became No. 2, that moored in the harbour being No. 1.
The No. 1 boat was withdrawn in 1928, when the No. 1 station was closed. The lifeboat house was altered and extended in 1938, 1964, 1969, 1978 and 1980-1; it was used until 1998. In that year, the lifeboat was moored in a berth to the W of the N Harbour, temporary shore facilities being provided.
N Leach 1999.
