Lifeboat Station : Kirkwall
Main Contact Details
West Pier Kirkwall
KW15 1LE
Telephone
(01856) 875201
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Dupre Strutt
Telephone
01856 875201
Station Opening Times
9am - 4pm daily
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
About this station
Officially established in 1972 Kirkwall is a relatively recent addition to Scotland’s coastal rescue services. The first 30 years have seen long and arduous rescues carried out to leisure craft, fishing vessels and larger commercial vessels.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
20/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:5220/11/2008
Dunbar - 09:0019/11/2008
Arran (Lamlash) - 13:38
Last Launch
14/09/2008
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.