Lifeboat Station : Barra Island
Main Contact Details
Main Street, Castlebay, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides
HS9 5XD
Telephone
(01871) 810307
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Roderick MacLean
Station email address barra-island@rnli.org.uk
Telephone
01871 810307
Station Opening Times
11am - 4pm Monday - Thursday
Shop
No shop. Buy online at http://www.rnli.org.uk/shop
About this station
For nearly 75 years, an all weather lifeboat has launched from Castlebay on the Outer Hebrides island, often into ‘diabolical’ seas (see 1979). Today the station operates the largest class of lifeboat, a Severn class.
Recent launches in scotland (BST)
08/07/2008
Eyemouth - 11:5308/07/2008
Buckie - 06:5208/07/2008
Buckie - 06:51
Last Launch
Launched this week
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
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.
Give it some Wellie!
30/06/2008
By: Rachel Martin
The RNLI Yellow Wellie challenge was launched today at Newhaven harbour, Edinburgh.
Broughty Ferry called from exercise
26/06/2008
By: Andrew Jeffrey
Broughty Ferry lifeboats were out on a training exercise yesterday when the Coastguard asked the crews to investigate a yacht lying in an exposed position in the River Tay.