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Latitude: 59.5378 / 59°32'16"N
Longitude: -1.6038 / 1°36'13"W
OS Eastings: 422509
OS Northings: 1072497
OS Grid: HZ225724
Mapcode National: GBR Q3DJ.7XG
Mapcode Global: XHD63.HJQJ
Entry Name: North Haven, crane, Fair Isle
Scheduled Date: 23 December 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6589
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Industrial: marine
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of a small hand-operated crane.
The crane stands on the edge of the old pier formerly used by the Fair Isle ferry, and now replaced by a new pier and slip to the NE. The crane is of iron construction, and the mechanism survives in working order, although the hoist cable has been removed. The crane is probably of late 19th-century date, and may have come second-hand from elsewhere in the north, possibly from a lighthouse station.
The area to be scheduled consists simply of the crane itself and the surface of the pier into which it is set: a notional circle of 5m diameter, as indicated in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a rare survival of a once-ubiquitous type of pre-mechanisation harbour furniture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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