North Carr Lightship
North Carr

For current information on North Carr, contact

Bob Richmond,  MVS Tay   tel.  01382 542516

mob. 07554 453535

The North Carr Lightship

is sponsored by -

The Heritage Lottery Fund

Apex Hotels

Forth Ports (Port of Dundee)

Dundee City Council

MVS Tay (Maritime Volunteer Service)
Steam Generator North Carr lightship
Lightship - original fittings
North Carrs signal cannon

Contact us - MVS Tay

The assistance of National Historic Ships in the production of this website is gratefully acknowledged.

Web design - Ken Bushe

Research, Text - Susan Coyne
North Carr Lightship, Dundee

North Carr is a unique historic vessel, largely unaltered since she came off station in 1974.
Lightship and Maritime Volunteer Service Tay Unit

Now moored in Victoria Dock, Dundee next to the Apex Hotel, she is the headquarters for  MVS Tay, a thriving maritime training unit .
North Carr Lightship on station at North Carr rocks Fife Ness

North Carr lightship pictured during her years of service off Fife Ness, when she warned shipping away from the North Carr reef.
The original interior of North Carr

Many original artefacts remain on board from her years of service, like this plotting board, dating from the Cold War
Dundee - Historic ships

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