Lifeboat Station : Portpatrick
Main Contact Details
Portpatrick, Stranraer, Wigtownshire
DG9 8AN
Telephone
(01776) 810251
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Robert Erskine
Telephone
01776 810251
Station Opening Times
9am - 4:30pm daily Don't miss: crew training - Summer 7pm Thursday; Winter 1:30pm Sunday
Shop
Tel: 01776 810855
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
For nearly 130 years an all weather lifeboat has operated from Portpatrick's attractive harbour. The crews have been honoured with five awards for gallantry, including a Bronze Medal for a launch to one of the worst peacetime disasters involving a British merchant vessel.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
23/11/2008
Kirkcudbright - 14:3723/11/2008
Aith - 07:3320/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:52
Last Launch
18/10/2008
New D class at Aberdeen
02/10/2008
By: Rachel Martin
Aberdeen's new D class lifeboat was officially named James Bissett Simpson on 20 September.
RNLI Compass Autumn 2008
01/10/2008
By: RNLI
Read more stories from Scotland in Compass, available here.
Holiday family found aground
29/09/2008
By: Martin Douglas
Loch Ness lifeboat crew were training on Sunday morning, 28 September, at 8am when they came across the motor cruiser Teal aground in Urquhart Bay, Drumnadrochit.
Queensferry lifeboat tows yacht in
05/08/2008
By: Hamish Campbell
Queensferry lifeboat rescued a couple yesterday after their 14m yacht broke an engine shaft off Hound Point in the Firth of Forth.