As work continues at pace on the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at Montrose Port for the Seagreen offshore wind farm, local businesses are starting to feel the benefit of the project. One such contractor is Harry Maiden Ltd, steel fabricators based in the town and which was tasked with installing the metal framework of the new O&M building – Read more...

CHART 1438 NOTICE is hereby given that maintenance dredging operations were completed on 25th March 2021. Capt. Thomas Hutchison – Chief Executive Officer/Harbour Master Read more...

CHART 1438 MONTROSE HARBOUR, ANNAT BANK BUOY – FLASHING TO CHARACTER Name: Annat Bank Buoy Position: 56°42.231’N – 002°25.953’W Character: Flashing GREEN (3s) NOTICE is hereby given that the above Buoy is back working and flashing to character. Please cancel Notice to Mariners No7. Captain Tom Hutchison – Harbour Master Read more...

By John Aitken A shipbuilding business was opened on Rossie Island, Montrose by the Coaster Construction Company Limited in 1919. Its embryonic origins however had begun late the previous year, a few days prior to the end of World War One, when a large piece of land on the east side of the Island consisting of “13 acres, 3 roods Read more...

CHART 1438 Notice is hereby given that on 21ST March 2021 dredging operations will commence in the navigable channel between Scurdieness Lighthouse and the Inner Harbour. These will continue for approximately 3 days. Mariners are requested to navigate with caution and give the dredger UKD Orca as wide a berth as possible at all times. The dredger will make regular Read more...