Lifeboat Station : Broughty Ferry (Dundee)
Main Contact Details
Fisher Street Broughty Ferry Dundee
DD5 1EF
Telephone
(01382) 779956
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Joe Samson
Telephone
01382 779956
Station Opening Times
By appointment only
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
About this station
Celebrating 175 years as a lifeboat station, and now operating two lifeboats, Broughty Ferry was the first inshore lifeboat station in Scotland. The station has sadly witnessed tragedy with eight lifeboat crew losing their lives saving others at sea.Recent launches in scotland (BST)
03/07/2009
Tobermory - 23:3403/07/2009
Stornoway (Lewis) - 20:1003/07/2009
Queensferry - 12:57
Last Launch
Launched within 24 hours_142_142_81_81.JPG "Patrick and Mick")
Update of Kayakers attemp first successful crossing to Faroes
02/07/2009
By: Caryn Whitelaw
Patrick and Mick have successfully completed the first 2 legs of their expedition!
RNLI Compass Summer 2009
01/07/2009
By: RNLI Publications
Read more stories from Scotland in Compass, available here.
_81_81.JPG "Patrick & Mick with canoes")
Kayakers attemp first successful crossing to Faroes
25/06/2009
By: Caryn Whitelaw
A former Olympian PATRICK WINTERTON and former British kayaking champion MICK BERWICK will attempt to make the first kayak crossing from Scotland to the Faroe Islands unsupported in June. Few have tried, no one, as yet, has succeeded.
Duke of Kent in Scotland
18/06/2009
By: Rachel Martin
HRH The Duke of Kent visited three Scottish RNLI lifeboats stations yesterday (17 June) and took a trip aboard his namesake lifeboat today.
Couple rescued in gale
17/05/2009
By: Rory Stamp
Dunbar lifeboat crew rescued a Swedish couple from their yacht on Friday night, in conditions described by the Dunbar Coxswain as the worst he'd ever experienced at sea.
