RNLI Wales and west news

Award winning RNLI volunteers receive keys to Moelfre Seawatch Centre

Eleri Davies

Moelfre RNLI volunteers were presented this morning (Friday) with the keys to the village’s Seawatch Centre by Anglesey County Council representatives. Today the RNLI officially takes over the building and volunteers will now be busy preparing the building to officially start welcoming guests next week...

40 years' service with the RNLI

Mel Cooper

A long serving member of the Port Talbot Lifeboat Station has been presented with a 40 year bar to his gold medal.
Phil Walker joined the station in 1972 and served on the lifeboat for 15 years when he stepped down from the lifeboat crew and became a member of the station's shore crew...

Lifeboat supporters go flat out for flippin' fantastic fundraisier

Danielle Rush

RNLI fundraisers in Tenby are calling on locals to support their annual pancake race next Tuesday (14 February). Last year, participants grabbed their frying pans and headed to Tudor Square for the 60 metre dash to the finishing line...

SOS day at Tenby's branch of Yorkshire Building Society

Bob James

Fundraising has started at the Tenby branch of Yorkshire Building Society.
The staff sold cakes on SOS Day, the RNLI's biggest day of fundraising, as a start to their nationwide campaign to raise funds for the RNLI which will continue throughout 2012...

Peel RNLI Lifeboat Crew Clean Up

Malcolm Kelly

Manx lifeboats help RNLI clock up record breaking year

Danielle Rush

The latest figures from the RNLI charity reveal that lifeboat crews across the West Division (Wales & Isle of Man) spent 7,228 hours responding to emergency incidents in 2011 – the most ever. The figure has been gradually increasing since RNLI started calculating how long crew spent on service in 2007...

Record breaking commitment – Welsh RNLI crews spend more time than ever saving lives

Danielle Rush

The latest figures from the RNLI charity reveal that lifeboat crews across Wales spent 6,877 hours responding to emergency incidents in 2011 – the most ever. The figure has been gradually increasing since the RNLI started calculating crew time spent at sea in 2007...

Fishguard lifeboat launches to scalloping boat

Peter Kedward

The scalloping season has drawn a large number of fishing boats from all over the British Isles to the waters off Fishguard and the resultant breakdowns at sea have seen the Fishguard RNLI called into service on a number of occasions so far this year.
The Coastguard was contacted by the 16-metre scalloper Scarlett Lou shortly before 6am on Friday 3 February after suffering a complete steering failure due to an hydraulic hose bursting...

Tenby RNLI lifeboat launches after report of red flares

Bob James

Tenby all-weather RNLI lifeboat was requested to launch at 6.45pm on Thursday 2 February after Milford Haven Coastguard received a call from a fishing boat stating that red flares had been sighted in the St Govans area...

High Sherriff of Clwyd launches station lifejacket appeal

Richard Polden

The High Sherriff of Clwyd Lloyd Fitzhugh OBE, his wife Pauline, and Under Sherriff John Gregory visited Flint RNLI lifeboat Station on Thursday, where they met some of the Flint volunteer lifeboat crew members, station officials, and fundraisers from Flint, Holywell, Buckley, Mold, and staff from Sainsbury’s Flint whose charity of the year is Flint RNLI.
Following a tour of the lifeboat station the High Sherriff officially launched the Flint Lifeboat Station Lifejacket Appeal, and received on the stations behalf a cheque for £200 towards the £4000 appeal from Neil Schofield of Flint Service Station...