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Aspects of Penarth. The RNLI lifeboat has been out on exercise on Saturday 19 September 2020 and has just reversed into its launch trailer, to be hauled up the slipway and across the road to the 1995 boathouse. It was soon after high tide and a variable wind was helping to create a considerable swell.
An earlier Penarth Lifeboat station existed here from 1861 to 1905, but a new one opened in 1980 and currently is home to an Atlantic 85-class lifeboat (seen here and named Maureen Lilian) that dates from 2010 and a D-class (IB1) lifeboat (Spirit of Penarth II) that arrived here in 2018.
in July 2020 the value of having two boats was shown when the smaller (D Class) boat was already out to assist a casualty when a second shout came, to rescue three people trapped by the rising tide. These were two of four shouts in five days. It still seems astonishing that this vital rescue service is entirely crewed by volunteers and funded by public contribution.
Penarth 190920 2346
Aspects of Penarth. The RNLI lifeboat has been out on exercise on Saturday 19 September 2020 and has just reversed into its launch trailer, to be hauled up the slipway and across the road to the 1995 boathouse. It was soon after high tide and a variable wind was helping to create a considerable swell.
An earlier Penarth Lifeboat station existed here from 1861 to 1905, but a new one opened in 1980 and currently is home to an Atlantic 85-class lifeboat (seen here and named Maureen Lilian) that dates from 2010 and a D-class (IB1) lifeboat (Spirit of Penarth II) that arrived here in 2018.
in July 2020 the value of having two boats was shown when the smaller (D Class) boat was already out to assist a casualty when a second shout came, to rescue three people trapped by the rising tide. These were two of four shouts in five days. It still seems astonishing that this vital rescue service is entirely crewed by volunteers and funded by public contribution.