Lifeboat Station : Helensburgh
Main Contact Details
Rhu Marina, Gairloch Road, Rhu, Helensburgh, Strathclyde
G84 8LH
Telephone
(01436) 820438
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Colin Gardiner
Telephone
01436 671152 (eve)
Station Opening Times
10:30am - 12pm Sunday; July - August 2:30pm - 4:30pm Wednesday or by appointment Don't Miss: Crew Training - 10:30am - 12pm Sunday
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
Located at Rhu, Helensburgh has celebrated 40 years as an inshore lifeboat station, providing cover for one of the busy pleasure craft areas on the Clyde. The boathouse has been highly commended in the Helensburgh & Lomond Planning Design Awards.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
23/11/2008
Aith - 07:3320/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:5220/11/2008
Dunbar - 09:00
Last Launch
11/11/2008
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.