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Nith Inshore Rescue, the independent lifeboat serving Dumfries and Galloway, is based in Glencaple on the Solway Firth, 5 miles south of Dumfries in south west Scotland.  We provide a voluntary search-and-rescue service covering the estuary of the River Nith together with other rivers and lochs in the area.  The crew are all unpaid volunteers, on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We are a Registered Charity in our own right (number SC022223), one of many independent lifeboats around the coast of Britain who are not part of the RNLI.

All lifeboats, whether RNLI or independent, come under the control of the Coastguard and we all carry out the same front-line search-and-rescue duties.  We have saved or assisted 87 people since we were founded in the winter of 1981-82.  2006 was another busy year for us: we were called out 25 times, so on average once a fortnight, and saved or assisted 18 people and two cattle. List of all 2006 call-outs.  We have attended three incidents so far in 2007.

 Nith Inshore Rescue, Registered Charity SC022223.  Page last verified 12 February 2007.