Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Longhope Lifeboat Museum is a museum at Brims on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The museum's main exhibit is the former lifeboat Thomas McCunn, the lifeboat that served the islands of Hoy and South Walls between 1933 and 1962.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: Wednesday—Friday 11:00 AM—4:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: former lifeboat station on Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Hoy, Walls, Longhope Lifeboat Station” and “Longhope Lifeboat Station, Walls, Hoy”
- Address: Brims, KW16 3NZ
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Melsetter House, Hoy and Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Melsetter House, Hoy
Historic building
Photo: Wolfgang Schlick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melsetter House, Hoy is a historic building, which is situated 1¼ miles west of Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
Tor Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tor Ness Lighthouse is situated 2½ miles west of Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brims and Longhope.
Brims
Locality
Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999.
Longhope
Village
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Longhope is a coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. South Walls is linked to Hoy by causeway; Longhope is the largest settlement on the two islands. The settlement is situated on the B9047, the main road on Hoy and South Walls. Longhope is situated 1½ miles northeast of Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
Point of Hackness
Locality
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Point of Hackness is a locality, which is situated 3½ miles northeast of Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
- Categories: lifeboat station, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.77958° or 58° 46′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.22844° or 3° 13′ 42″ westOpen location code
9CCRQQHC+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 426021927OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q17829284
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Highlights include The Skeo, broch, Brims, Hoy and Chapel, Melsetter House, Hoy.
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