Lifeboat Station : Campbeltown
Main Contact Details
Capt Ian Weir Crawford Boathouse, The Old Quay, Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll
PA28 6ED
Telephone
(01586) 552414
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
George Bradley
Telephone
01586 552414
07719 244464
Station Opening Times
9am - 4pm daily
Shop
Apr - end of Sep 11am - 4pm Nov - Dec (six weeks before Christmas) Open less during Spring and Winter - 12pm - 4.30pm Mon - Sat Tel: 01586 551894
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
Launching from Campbeltown Harbour for nearly 145 years, lifeboats have provided search and rescue cover for both commercial and leisure mariners. The crews have been honoured with awards for gallantry, the most recent in 2001.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
23/11/2008
Aith - 07:3320/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:5220/11/2008
Dunbar - 09:00
Last Launch
08/11/2008
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.