Kinsale Lifeboat Station
| Inshore Lifeboat | |
|---|---|
| Launch Method | Carriage |
| Address | Adams Quay, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland |
| Telephone | 087 991 9918 |
Explore two centuries of RNLI lifeboat history, heroic rescues, and the enduring tradition of saving lives at sea.
Kinsale Lifeboat Station is based at Adams Quay in the historic port and fishing town of Kinsale, at the mouth of the River Bandon on the south coast of County Cork. The inshore lifeboat station was established by the RNLI in 2003 to provide cover for the busy commercial and pleasure harbour and the surrounding coast. It operates an Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat with one of the most distinctive names in the fleet.
Kinsale has a long maritime history — the scene of a decisive battle in 1601 and the place off which the liner Lusitania was sunk in 1915 — and remains a busy fishing and sailing harbour. To provide modern inshore rescue cover, the RNLI established a lifeboat station at Kinsale in 2003. The station operated successive Atlantic-class inshore lifeboats, and in 2018 received a new Atlantic 85, funded from the legacy of Miss Sally Anne Odell.
In accordance with her wishes, and continuing the name of the boat she had earlier funded, the lifeboat was named Miss Sally Anne (Baggy) II, Never Fear, Baggy’s Here (B-909) at a ceremony in August 2018 — one of the most distinctive names in the RNLI fleet, continuing the name of the Atlantic 75 that Miss Odell had earlier funded. From Adams Quay in the heart of the town, the station’s crew cover the harbour, the Bandon estuary and the surrounding south Cork coast, including the busy approaches off the Old Head of Kinsale, working closely with the neighbouring Courtmacsherry Harbour and Crosshaven lifeboats.
