Lifeboat Station : Thurso
Main Contact Details
Ferry Pier Scrabster Thurso Caithness
KW14 7UJ
Telephone
(01847) 893433
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Station Information
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- RNLI Beach Lifeguard area
Visitor Contact
Brian Williams
Telephone
01847 893433
Station Opening Times
9:30am - 4:30pm daily
Shop
Spring, Summer and Autumn - 10am - 4pm Sat only
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
Thurso is the RNLI's most northerly lifeboat station on mainland Scotland. Today's Severn class lifeboat launches into the often turbulent seas of the Pentland Firth. The crews have been presented with 17 awards for gallantry, the most recent in 2004.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
20/11/2008
Queensferry - 14:5220/11/2008
Dunbar - 09:0019/11/2008
Arran (Lamlash) - 13:38
Last Launch
22/10/2008
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.