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Lottery cash helps save Scotland's last lightship
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THE last lightship in Scotland has been given a substantial
lottery grant to prevent it from falling into dereliction.
The historic North Carr lightship, which guided Atlantic convoys
into the Clyde during the Second World War and was stationed off the
Fife coast during peacetime, is currently berthed and rusting away in
Victoria Dock in Dundee.
It has now been given a GBP 44,200 grant by the Heritage Lottery
Fund to carry out essential maintenance and repairs to its
superstructure.
David Kett, spokesman for the Maritime Volunteer Service, which
looks after the lightship, said: "We are ...
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