Lifeboat Station : Aith
Main Contact Details
Aith Bixter Shetland
ZE2 9NB
Telephone
(01595) 810276
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Hylton Henry
Telephone
01595 810276
Station Opening Times
9am - 5pm daily
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
Operating for over 70 years, Aith is the most northerly lifeboat station providing protection for mariners off Shetland’s sometimes wild Atlantic coast. The crews have been honoured with 10 awards for gallantry for rescues carried out in their all weather lifeboat.Recent launches in scotland (BST)
23/11/2008
Aith - 07:3320/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:5220/11/2008
Dunbar - 09:00
Last Launch
Launched this week
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.