Lifeboat Station : Campbeltown
Main Contact Details
Capt Ian Weir Crawford Boathouse, The Old Quay, Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll
PA28 6ED
Telephone
(01586) 552414
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Visitor Contact
George Bradley
Telephone
01586 552414
07719 244464
Station Opening Times
9am - 4pm daily
Shop
Apr - end of Sep 11am - 4pm Nov - Dec (six weeks before Christmas) Open less during Spring and Winter - 12pm - 4.30pm Mon - Sat Tel: 01586 551894
Accessibility
Parking
About this station
Launching from Campbeltown Harbour for nearly 145 years, lifeboats have provided search and rescue cover for both commercial and leisure mariners. The crews have been honoured with awards for gallantry, the most recent in 2001.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
07/09/2008
Kinghorn - 17:3207/09/2008
Mallaig - 08:5607/09/2008
Largs - 00:56
Last Launch
Launched this week
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.
Beer festival raises over £13,000 for Broughty Ferry lifeboat station
08/07/2008
By: Dr Andrew Jeffrey, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Fisherman's Tavern Beer Festival raises record-breaking £13,064 for Broughty Ferry RNLI lifeboat station
Busy Sunday for Arran
08/07/2008
By: Allan Little
Arran's B class lifeboat The Boys' Brigade was called out twice on Sunday, helping rescue a yacht with a fouled propeller and a family that had been swept out to sea on their dinghy.
8 hours at sea for Peterhead crew
01/07/2008
By: Rachel Martin
Peterhead's Tamar class all-weather lifeboat was launched yesterday at 6.15am for a lengthy service to an 18m fishing boat.
RNLI Compass Summer 2008
01/07/2008
By: RNLI Publications
Read more stories from Scotland in Compass, available here.