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Is that built with greenheart timber or another type which I can't spell? if its greenheart you could make a lot of fly rods out of it.

Jimmy, I have had a good look at this slipway and can tell you it is of mass concrete consturuction and a piece of superb work. It is a credit to the shuttering joiners on the workmanship.
Can someone tell when and who built it, it's amazing. I wish our slip in Brims had been of the same type as this, it will last for ever.

I think it's concrete.

Very little good for fly rods. Its solid concrete

All the supports were made out of mass concrete and not of wood. It was said to level them off they put a charge of explosives at the top of each support

I don't know about Stronsay, but a lot of RNLI slipways were built of a hard wood called Lignum Vitae, including the Stromness slipway.

This one is concrete, and I was wrong about Lignum Vitae, a lot are built of Chara (maybe wrongly spelt).

Thanks Stewart, I knew they used Lignum Vitae, taking your word for the spelling, and didn't know they had built any on concrete piles, no use for making fly rods . LoL

The boathouse and slipway were constructed in 1911 at a cost of £3,050 to house the Stronsay lifeboat John Ryburn which had lain at anchor in Papa Sound since arriving in Stronsay on 20th may 1909. The boathouse was constructed of good old corrugated iron over the concrete pillars. The station was temporary closed in 1915. When it was reviewed in the early twenties no crew was available and it was officially closed in 1930 with the ground and slip being surrendered to the local landowner in 1938 and dismantled in the late forties.

There was another lifeboat stationed in Stronsay from 1952 - 1972 until the station was closed again.

The last Lifeboat to serve in Stronsay was the John Gellatly Hyndman "ON923".
She served from 1955 - 1972 whe the station closed, I was one of the crew to take her from Stronsay to Lerwick, where she was put on relief duty.

Previous to the JGHyndman was the EDWARD Z DRESDEN