Macduff Lifeboat Station
| Inshore Lifeboat | |
|---|---|
| Launch Method | Lorry-mounted davit |
| Address | Bankhead, Macduff, Aberdeenshire, AB44 1XX |
| Telephone | 01261 833491 |
Explore two centuries of RNLI lifeboat history, heroic rescues, and the enduring tradition of saving lives at sea.
From Macduff, on the eastern shore of the River Deveron overlooking Banff Bay, the station runs a fast Atlantic 85, launched by a mobile crane. The present station dates from 1974, but lifeboat cover in this part of the coast goes back to 1860.
Lifeboat cover here has moved along the coast over the years. The RNLI established a station at Banff in 1860, relocating it across the Deveron to Macduff in 1877, and then to Whitehills, where it served until closing in 1969. After a few years without a boat, the RNLI re-established the station at Macduff in 1974; supporters treat the whole lineage as one.
The Banff and Macduff crews earned their place in the records early. On 11 February 1906 four fishermen from the nearby village of Crovie, still in their Sunday clothes, put out in a salmon coble and saved five men from the steamer Vigilant of Newcastle, wrecked in a north-east gale; each of the four received the Silver Medal.
Now an inshore station, Macduff has run the Atlantic 85 Skipasund since 2022, launched in an unusual fashion by a lorry-mounted crane.
