Old Photograph North Carr Lightship Anstruther Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the North Carr Lightship in the harbour in Anstruther on the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels entering the Forth from the north and bound for the Tay. She was built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd, part of Harland and Wolff, for the Northern Lighthouse Board for £15,000 at Pointhouse Shipyard, Glasgow in 1932 and completed on 27 February 1933.I was raised in this old fishing village on the East coast. Also known as Ainster, Anster and Enster.



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