Buckie Lifeboat Station
| All-Weather Lifeboat | |
|---|---|
| Launch Method | Moored afloat |
| Address | Commercial Road, Buckie, Moray, AB56 1UT |
| Telephone | 01542 831289 |
Explore two centuries of RNLI lifeboat history, heroic rescues, and the enduring tradition of saving lives at sea.
From the harbour town of Buckie, on the south shore of the Moray Firth near the mouth of the River Spey, the station runs a Severn-class all-weather lifeboat across the firth. A lifeboat has served here since 1860, and the crews hold three gallantry medals.
At the request of the Inspector of Coastguard, the RNLI established a station at Buckie in 1860, in a town with a large fishing population that had already suffered heavy losses — some forty lives in a single gale a few years before. The first lifeboats were brought by rail and hauled by horses to be greeted by thousands.
The crews earned their medals across the years: Silver Medals to Peter Fernie and William Raich in 1890 for wading into the surf to save the crew of the German smack Industrie, stranded near Cluny Harbour; and the Bronze to Coxswain George Jappy in 1968 for taking the lifeboat alongside the fishing boat Mistletoe, aground and pounding at the mouth of the Spey.
Buckie has run the Severn-class William Blannin from a pontoon berth since 2003.
