Campbeltown Lifeboat Station
Campbeltown Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Lifeboat (rescue), lifeboat at Campbeltown in Argyll, Scotland. It opened in 1861 and today operates both inshore and all-weather lifeboats. History There were few lifeboats in south west Scotland in the 1850s but the RNLI stationed one at Campbeltown in 1861. The cost was paid by Lady Murray of Edinburgh, the cost of the boat, carriage and boathouse came to £431. The local committee also managed a second station from 1869. This was known as Southend (Kyntyre) Lifeboat Station, Southend at Dunaverty Castle, Dunaverty Bay. A new boathouse was built at Campbeltown in 1898, this time costing £885; the old one was demolished and the site handed back to the land owner. A second, smaller lifeboat was added to the station in 1910 but it was never used before it was withdrawn in 1931, the year after the second station at Southend was closed. The larger 'pulling and sailing' lifeboat was replaced ...
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Campbeltown
Campbeltown (; gd, Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or ) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown became an important centre for Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port. The 2018 population estimate was 4,600 indicating a reduction since the 2011 census. History Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran (an anglicization of the Gaelic, which means 'head of the loch by the kirk of Ciarán'), Campbeltown was renamed in the 17th century as ''Campbell's Town'' after Archibald Campbell ( Earl of Argyle) was granted the site in 1667. Campbeltown Town Hall was completed in 1760. Whisky Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself "the whisky capital of the world". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of Prohibiti ...
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