Orkney Image Library

1. Launch (date approx) This is the first in a series of The Longhope life boat launching from and being retrieved at the sh...

2 . she's underway This is the second in a series of The Longhope life boat launching from and being retrieved at the s...

3. She's back and getting in line This is the third in a series of The Longhope life boat launching from and being retrieved at the sh...

4. Taking the strain This is the fourth in a series of The Longhope life boat launching from and being retrieved at the s...

5. nearly home This is the fifth in a series of The Longhope life boat launching from and being retrieved at the sh...

Kirkwall Basin - 1966 Next to the pier at left side is John Clyne's 'Laurel' with Tommy Harcus's 'Lotus' lying alongside. ...

Stromness Harbour Northern Lighthouse Board vessel Pole Star working on the Stromness Harbour buoy, Aug 2007.

Stromness Harbour Ferries St Ola, St Clements, and Watchfull, in Stromness Harbour. The date is a guess.

An Auld Boat An old boat, in need of some TLC, beside Hatston Slip.

m.v. Otter Bank - 1970 Following the merger between these two banks in 1969 the name on the sign above the fore-deck has be...

1989 The Sulisker at Kirkwall Pier. VERY high tide - the Islander's gangway is just about vertical.

m.v. St Ola ex P & O ferry 'St Ola' (ex Eckero) at anchor in Pierowall Roads between the islands of Westray and ...