{"id":885,"date":"2010-05-04T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/?p=885"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T09:02:31","slug":"kirkwall-lifeboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/2010\/05\/kirkwall-lifeboat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkwall lifeboat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officially established in 1972 ,the Kirkwall lifeboat station<\/a> is a relatively recent addition to Scotland\u2019s coastal rescue services.<\/p>\n

The first 30+ years have seen long and arduous rescues carried out to leisure craft, fishing vessels and larger commercial vessels.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>
On alert - the Kirkwall RNLI Lifeboat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1988\u00a0The Arun class lifeboat, Mickie Salvesen was placed on service.<\/p>\n

A new mooring berth was dredged during 1989 as the old berth, used by the Clyde lifeboat, was unsuitable for the Arun class lifeboat because of the lack of depth.<\/p>\n

The new Severn class lifeboat\u00a0Margaret Foster ON 1231 (17-13)\u00a0was placed in service on 26 March 1998.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Margaret Foster is moored afloat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It carries a Y Class inflatable boat, which can be deployed by an on-board crane for use in shallow water.<\/p>\n

Three bronze medals have been awarded to the Kirkwall Lifeboat Station.<\/p>\n

The Kirkwall station is one of three serving the waters around Orkney. Longhope<\/a> and Stromness<\/a> are the other two.<\/p>\n

Specification<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kirkwall<\/a>
Kirkwall lifeboat is an RNLI Severn Class vessel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Length – 17m
\nRange \u00a0– 250 nautical miles
\nSpeed \u00a0– 25 knots
\nWeight \u00a0– 41 tonnes
\nCrew \u00a0– 6
\n5,500 litre (1,200 imperial gallons) fuel capacity
\nConstruction \u00a0– Fibre reinforced composite
\nCost to replace – \u00a32m
\nClass introduced in 1995<\/p>\n

Volunteers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The RNLI is an independent charity, and does not receive any funding from the UK government.<\/p>\n

Since its foundation in 1824\u00a0the RNLI has saved more than 139,000 lives<\/p>\n

Founded as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck after an appeal made by Sir William Hillary,\u00a0the name was changed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1854.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officially established in 1972 ,the Kirkwall lifeboat station is a relatively recent addition to Scotland\u2019s coastal rescue services. The first 30+ years have seen long and arduous rescues carried out to leisure craft, fishing vessels and larger commercial vessels. In 1988\u00a0The Arun class lifeboat, Mickie Salvesen was placed on service. A new mooring berth was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,834],"tags":[1678,1674,1675,1677,1671,1669,1699,1698,1686,1697,1670,1682,1676,1696,1694,1692,1683,1681,1693,1690,1673,1691,19],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-featured","category-the-islands","tag-26-march","tag-arun","tag-bronze-medals","tag-class-vessel","tag-commercial-vessels","tag-fishing-vessels","tag-fuel-capacity","tag-imperial-gallons","tag-independent-charity","tag-inflatable-boat","tag-leisure-craft","tag-lifeboat-station","tag-margaret-foster","tag-milesspeed","tag-national-institution","tag-national-lifeboat-institution","tag-nautical-miles","tag-rnli","tag-royal-national-lifeboat","tag-royal-national-lifeboat-institution","tag-salvesen","tag-sir-william-hillary","tag-stromness","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}