Green Circular: Broughty Ferry Lifeboat Station Traditional Cache
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Green Circular: Broughty Ferry Lifeboat Station
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BROUGHTY FERRY LIFEBOAT STATION
This station is the busiest station in Scotland.
A brief history
1830 The first lifeboat was stationed at Buddon Ness by the River Tay Lifeboat Society.
1859 A lifeboat was placed at Broughty Ferry.
1861 Broughty Ferry and Buddon Ness lifeboats were taken over by the RNLI.
1862 A boathouse was built in Fisher Street and the Broughty Ferry lifeboat was launched from a carriage into the River Tay.
1889 A slipway was built to improve launching.
1909 A new boathouse and slipway were built for a new lifeboat.
1910 The station’s first motor lifeboat arrived at the station.
1959 On 8 December the lifeboat Mona, first stationed at Broughty Ferry in 1935, was launched to assist the North Carr lightship that had broken adrift in exceptionally severe weather conditions. In the early hours of the morning the lifeboat capsized and her eight crew drowned. A memorial plaque to the men who tragically lost their lives can be seen on the boathouse wall.
1960 The boathouse was adapted for the Watson class lifeboat.
1964 The first inshore lifeboat station in Scotland was established at Broughty Ferry with a D class lifeboat.
The slipway was altered to improve launching at high water.
1998 A new D class lifeboat, D-539 Hartlepool Dynamo, was placed on service in September.
2001 The Trent class lifeboat Elizabeth of Glamis replaced the Arun class.
2005 The station celebrated its 175th anniversary with a rededication of the lifeboat.
Cache is a grey magnetic sample tube which blends in to its surroundings. Please check the spoiler photo and don't log a DNF if you haven't checked behind the triangular shaped support on the underside of the ramp!
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