Lifeboat Station : Kirkcudbright
Main Contact Details
Dee Road, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway
DG6 4XQ
Telephone
(01557) 330425
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Mr John Collins
Telephone
01557 331475
Station Opening Times
10am - 12pm
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
About this station
Providing search and rescue coverage from Southerness Point to Scares Rocks, Luce Bay in the Solway Firth, a lifeboat has been based at Kirkcudbright for over 140 years. Today, the station operates an inshore B class lifeboat.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
04/07/2009
Fraserburgh - 11:1204/07/2009
Dunbar - 08:3603/07/2009
Tobermory - 23:34
Last Launch
Launched this week_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.
