Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service
| Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service | ||
| Lifeboat station | ||
 Gosport and Fareham lifeboat station.
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| Country | England | |
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| County | Hampshire | |
| District | Gosport | |
| Municipality | Stokes Bay | |
| Location | Stokes Bay, Hampshire | |
| - coordinates | 50°46′43.0″N 1°08′57.6″W / 50.778611°N 1.149333°WCoordinates: 50°46′43.0″N 1°08′57.6″W / 50.778611°N 1.149333°W | |
| Material | Fabricated steelwork, Brickwork and concrete |
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| Founded | 1969 | |
| Owner | The Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service, which is a registered charity | |
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Gosport Lifeboat Station is a volunteer-operated independent lifeboat station located in the village of Alverstoke on the peninsula of Gosport in the English county of Hampshire. Owned and operated by Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS), it operates free lifeboat services in the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield Haven, on the approaching shores of Southampton Water.
GAFIRS is on call with HM Coastguard 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When lifeboat crews are not on station, they are ready for an immediate launch via pager callout. In addition to the frontline lifeboat service, GAFIRS helps the county's other emergency services respond to inland incidents such as flooding, snow rescue and inland water rescues.
2009 marked the charity's 40th anniversary.
There are 235 RNLI-owned lifeboat stations around the United Kingdom, and there are 65 lifeboat stations which are not owned or managed by the RNLI, such as GAFIRS. Like the RNLI, GAFIRS provides services to HM Coastguard whose equipment, training, policies and procedures comply with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Rescue Boat Code of Practice.
In 2010, GAFIRS and other independent lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom launched an awareness campaign to remove the common public misconception that there is only one charity "Saving Lives at Sea." The campaign, titled "Go Orange for Indie Lifeboat", aims to educate members of the public that donations to the RNLI may not actually be going towards their local lifeboat station if it is one of the independent ones, such as GAFIRS or Ryde Inshore Rescue.
The patron of Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service is yachtswoman Dee Caffari, who became patron on 17 October 2011, after the death of the previous patron Lady Margaret Fieldhouse.
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