Lifeboat Station : Portaferry
Station Information
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- Explore stations are normally open all year and have an RNLI gift shop
- Discover stations are normally open during the summer months
- Observe stations may be open by appointment only
- RNLI Beach Lifeguard area
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)
21/11/2008
Ballycotton - 11:1720/11/2008
Arklow - 00:4118/11/2008
Dun Laoghaire - 13:17
Last Launch
02/11/2008
RNLI Compass Autumn 2008
01/10/2008
By: RNLI
Read more stories from Ireland in Compass, available here.
Ballycotton celebrates 150 years
22/09/2008
By: Blaithnaid Lane Walsh
Ballycotton lifeboat station celebrates its 150th anniversary on Sunday 28 September.
Seven rescued from grounded cruiser
01/09/2008
By: Eleanor Hooker
Lough Derg lifeboat was launched on 25 August to help seven people onboard a cruiser aground on Stick Rock.
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.