The lifeboat crew in Montrose has been making final preparations for the move to their new station.
It was a busy day on Saturday for the RNLI team as volunteers and staff moved their boats, equipment and operational gear to their new premises near Wharf Street in advance of its official opening later this year.
The service has outgrown its station, which was built in 1989, but its new headquarters will provide it with a far greater range of facilities and better access to the harbour.
It will also be home to a new £1.5 million Shannon class lifeboat the first of its kind to be stationed in Scotland.
Lifeboats operations manager Ray Wilkie said: “The station has been handed over from the contractors and we have been transferring all our equipment.
“It has been done quite smoothly. I think and there has been a lot of stuff moved, including two boats and all the crew’s dry and wet gear.
“We’ve stayed operational the entire time as well, so it has gone well.”
Work on the new site began in September 2011 with the construction of a steel jetty and pontoon, with the foundations of the building being laid last summer, after Fife couple Hugh and Molly Brown left their entire £1 million legacy to the RNLI.
Funding for the new lifeboat came in a bequest from solicitor Ruth Grant Smith who died aged 99 in December 2005.