Welcome To the Arbroath Lifeboat Station - "Saving Lives Since 1803"

Celebrating over 200 years as a lifeboat station, Arbroath is one of the oldest stations in Scotland
and its crews have been honoured with seven awards for gallantry.
The station has also seen tragedy with seven lifeboat crew losing their lives saving others.

A Busy Year:
The RNLI lifeboat station in Arbroath was the sixth busiest in Scotland in 2008 and the crew, all from the local community, were involved in 46 search and rescues, helping to rescue 27 people. By the end of 2008 we had 50 callouts, that's an average of nearly 1 a week, and we had the first “coastal shout” of 2008 in the whole of the United Kingdom and Ireland and saw crew members [all of whom were seeing in the new year with friends and families] drop everything to respond to their pagers at 1.05am on New Years morning.

Today Arbroath is one of 45 lifeboat stations around Scotland and has the last remaining slipway launched lifeboat in Scotland.
Scottish lifeboats launched a total of 967 times in 2008 and rescued a record 672 people - which on average, is one person every eight and a half hours.
The 30 crew at Arbroath are among 880 lifeboat crew in Scotland, of whom 832 are volunteers. At Arbroath the crew include a fisherman, offshore workers, machine operators, ambulance drivers and a paramedic.  The RNLI believes that without the commitment and dedication of volunteers, like those at Arbroath, the RNLI’s role of saving lives at sea would be impossible.

The RNLI is a charity that provides a lifesaving service at sea (up to 100 nautical miles) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As a charity the RNLI relies on public donations to help train and equip its volunteer lifeboat crews.