RNLB Shoreline has been on station at Arbroath for just over three years, having previously served at Blyth. This 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was paid for from funds raised by Shoreline members in 1977/78 and, since her arrival at Arbroath, has been on sixteen services. Call-outs have included standing by boats returning to harbour in bad weather, people missing at sea and boats blown aground in storms.

A long line of almost unbroken cliffs run some fourteen miles north east of Arbroath to Montrose, while the Toy estuary, with its mixture of sandy beaches, reefs and banks, runs to the south and west. During the spring and autumn a D class inflatable lifeboat is kept on station to reach the more inaccessible caves and inlets which are popular with visitors and local egg collectors. R.A.F.

Leuchars' Wessex SAR helicopters exercise regularly with both lifeboats and the station is visited by Dutch and Icelandic lifeboatmen attending sea rescue and survival courses at Robert Cordon's Institute of Technology base at Arbroath.

photograph by courtesy of J. A. Ogilvie DA.