HARBOUR GALA We are Looking for more ideas for the Girvan Harbour Gala. 15th of July Work is starting already for the day and we thought we send a message out to see if anyone could help with ideas or who can help out on the day so please let us know what you would like to see at this gala Thank you

With the country being battered lately with storms, we thought we would share this fantastic photo by the hugely talented Nigel Millard from his twitter feed, This is a photo taken during the passage home of our new Shannon Lifeboat in December. #NaturesWashingMachine

Monday Night is training night, tonight some of our volunteer crew took to sea on our Shannon class lifeboat, working on passage planning, night time navigation, coming alongside, rope work, towing and berthing a casualty vessel, which in this case was our colleagues from Campbeltown Lifeboat who kindly participated in our training exercise. #TrainOneSaveMany

Girvan Lifeboat launches to distress flare sightings in 1st shout of 2018. Sunday 18th February 2018 Girvan's volunteer lifeboat crews pagers were activated just after midday on Sunday 18th Feb with an immediate launch request from the UK Coastguard Operations Centre in Belfast. As some of our crew were already at station carrying out training, Girvan's all-weather lifeboat 12-37 'Silvia Burrell' quickly launched and proceeded North, further information coming in provided more detail to our crew as to sightings of red distress flares and potentially kayakers in trouble. The lifeboat crew carried out a detailed search from before Culzean to after Dunure with our crew stopping and speaking with some kayakers and small fishing vessels along the way. Further information relayed to us from Belfast Coastguard suggested another sighting of red flares a bit further inland near Ayr, and happy that the coastline waters had been searched by ourselves, and the Coastguard Operations Centre and Coastguard rescue teams on the ground conducting further enquiries, Girvan Lifeboat was requested to stand down. The lifeboat returned to Girvan harbour at approx 14:30 where it was washed, fuelled and made ready for service once again. If you believe someone to be in genuine trouble on the coast or at sea always dial 999 and ask for the coastguard.

Few photos of the crew training on Saturday morning working hard to get the Shannon on service

Some pictures from the First Sunday training exercise of the year with both boats

Have a safe and Happy New Year...heres a selection of photos sent to us and taken throughout the year with a wee tune just for tonight.. thank you for your support.

Thanks to your generosity Girvan lifeboat crew and others all around the country are ready all day, every day to respond at a moment's notice and save lives at sea. Stay safe this Christmas and remember to #RespectTheWater.

It's been an amazing and historical year here at Girvan Lifeboat station, with the arrival of our new Shannon Lifeboat recently, adding to the success of the Harbour gala and all our other events this year, you have done us proud. So from Callum and all the crew, fundraising and management team at Girvan Lifeboat Station, thank you for your continued support, we wish all our followers, supporters and community a safe and Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Can you help? We're looking for archive photographs of our previous lifeboats arrivals (Mersey/Brede) in particular we would be interested in any photos you may have of the piper piping the new boats in if you can help get in touch on here or email us girvan@rnli.org.uk Thank you please share.