Stranraer Lifeboat Station is located at Foreland Place, Stranraer, a port town which sits at the bottom end of Loch Ryan, on the north side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway double-headed peninsula to the mainland, formerly in Wigtownshire, now in the administrative region of Dumfries and Galloway.

[2] In 1964, in response to an increasing amount of water-based leisure activity, the RNLI placed 25 small fast Inshore lifeboats around the country.

The Stranraer D-class (Zodiac III) lifeboat (D-287) was called to the aid of a Volkswagen Beetle.

Construction was completed in June 1994, the building not only housing the D-class class lifeboat and launch vehicle, but also providing a workshop and crew facilities.

At a ceremony on Saturday 15 November 2008, the fund's 49th lifeboat, Stranraer Saviour (Civil Service No.49) (D-697) was formally named and handed over to the RNLI.