Lifeboat Station : Weston-super-Mare
Main Contact Details
Birnbeck Island, Weston-Super-Mare, Avon
BS23 1AL
Telephone
01934 621871 (Shop: 01934 412767)
- Observe this station
Station Information
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- RNLI Beach Lifeguard area
Visitor Contact
Peter Holder
Telephone
07768 287236
Station Opening Times
Lifeboat station not generally open to public due to dangerous state of Birnbeck Pier
Shop
Easter - Oct - 10am - 4pm daily Tel: 01934 412767
About this station
Now operating two inshore lifeboats in the Severn estuary, Weston-super-Mare originally operated the first motor lifeboat to be placed on the Somerset coast. The station has been presented with six awards for gallantry.
Recent launches in the southwest (BST)
05/10/2008
Mudeford - 16:0905/10/2008
St Ives - 15:5705/10/2008
St Ives - 15:56
Last Launch
Launched this week
Lifeguard patrols extended into Winter
02/10/2008
By: Amy Caldwell
The traditional RNLI lifeguard season drew to a close at the end of September, but patrols have been extended on six beaches in the south west of England.
Fishing boat saved from rocks
22/09/2008
By: Jo Damsell
Exmouth's all-weather lifeboat was tasked on 20 September to rescue a fishing vessel that had broken down and was drifting dangerously close to rocks.
Triple naming at The Lifeboat College
29/08/2008
By: Laura Fennimore
Three RNLI relief fleet inshore lifeboats, funded by generous legacies, will be officially named in the Sea Survival Centre at The Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on Tuesday 2 September.