StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: slipway

That's actually a sizable lump of wood washed up by the receding tide. Next to the ugly modern slipway into the Outer Harbour at Whitehaven. Pleased to see sand accumulating rather than piles of seaweed tangled up with plastic rubbish and dead bycatch, as present on recent visits. Bella inspected the log on her arrival on the beach !

The only one not afloat today - MV "Western Belle" is still on the slipway [perhaps still under her winter overhaul" ... She was built in 1935, and came to Ullswater in 2010 after spending 2009 under restoration at the Mersey Heritage Shipyard. After a trip up the M6 and final fitting out on the company slipway she entered service later that year. She is 75ft by 15ft6" with a draft of 5ft9" and can carry up to 160 passengers at a cruising speed of 10knts.

The "new" lifeboat house at Port Erin, dates from 1925 (the old house is from 1884) and currently houses an inshore boat, B-813 "Muriel and Leslie" - which is an Atlantic 85 - on station from 2006. She is slipway launched and recovered with a winch.

Finally found our way over to Douglas Lifeboat Station - it is on the far side, nearly in the oil terminal and away from the main buildings, marina & ferry terminal. One of five RNLI stations on the Isle Of Man. The boathouse had a slipway launched "Tyne" Class All Weather Boat between 1988 & 2018 named after Sir William Hillary [47-032]. This was replaced by the Mersey "Marine Engineer" [12-12] in 2018, which had previously been based at Bridlington.

Established in 1803, Arbroath is one of the oldest lifeboat stations in Scotland and the last Scottish station with a slipway. When launching the boat is heading for another harbour wall, so the cox'n needs to be concentrating. The station is currently home to a Mersey class all-weather lifeboat and a D class inshore lifeboat.