Archive of: January, 2018

National Historic Ships UK secures full National Lottery grant for skills training project

Planning for the long-term major refit of REAPER, the iconic flagship of the Scottish Fisheries Museum, began in early 2015 with the aim of keeping her safe and seaworthy for another 30 years, but a series of events has meant that it was only in autumn 2017 that the refit could begin.

An exhibition to mark the centenary of the fateful night of 31 January 1918 when two British submarines and over 100 lives were lost to the sea.