Lifeboat Station : Portaferry
Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Brian Bailie
Telephone
07768 555851
Station Opening Times
By appointment only
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
About this station
Portaferry is one of seven RNLI lifeboat stations operating a lifeboat funded by viewers of the BBC television programme Blue Peter. The station was established due to the increase in pleasure boating activity in the Strangford Lough area and when Cloughey lifeboat station closed.
Recent launches in ireland (BST)
07/09/2008
Larne - 18:3307/09/2008
Wexford - 17:4807/09/2008
Donaghadee - 17:17
Last Launch
Launched this week
RNLI Compass Summer 2008
01/07/2008
By: RNLI Publications
Read more stories from Ireland in Compass, available here.
Family rescued from grounded yacht
30/06/2008
By: Charles W. Glynn
Kilrush lifeboat crew rescued a family from their grounded yacht on Saturday afternoon.
Bangor called out to dinghy race
23/06/2008
By: Kevin Baird
Bangor's B class lifeboat was launched on Sunday afternoon to help rescue children involved in a dinghy race that had been disrupted by severe weather.
New Fethard lifeboat named
09/06/2008
By: Niamh Stephenson
Fethard's new D class lifeboat was named Trade Winds on Saturday.
Flood Rescue team exercise
09/05/2008
By: Niamh Stephenson
A specially trained team of 20 RNLI lifeboat crew members will take part in an emergency exercise this weekend in counties Fermanagh and Donegal.