North Carr Lightship

North Carr is the last remaining Scottish lightship, a small vessel 101 feet long that once marked the North Carr rocks off Fife Ness, at the turning point for ships passing between the Firths of Forth and Tay. A. & J. Inglis built her at Pointhouse Shipyard in Glasgow for the Northern Lighthouse Board, and she was completed in February 1933. She was the third vessel to carry the name. In December 1959 she broke her moorings in heavy seas and the Broughty Ferry lifeboat Mona, launched to help, capsized with the loss of its crew of eight, though the lightship and her crew were saved. After leaving service in 1975 she served as a museum at Anstruther and later lay at Dundee under the care of a charity, still awaiting restoration or dismantling.