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This section of the webiste documents the history of Barmouth Lifeboat. This information has been collated by Mrs Norma Stockford and we are very grateful to her for providing it to the Town Council to share with you here.
The RNLI is made up of ordinary people doing extraordinary things since 1924.
For 200 years, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has saved lives at sea around our coast. When Sir William Hillary, a Quaker lifeboatman, founded the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck in 1824, lifeboats were few in number, powered by teams of oarsmen, and volunteer crews could only operate close to the beaches from which they had been launched.
Today, the RNLI operates more than 400 fast, modern craft from more than 230 lifeboat stations. On call day and night; 24 hours a day; 365 days a year; they provide a swift and efficient rescue service up to 100 miles offshore anywhere round the coast of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Each year our lifeboat crews rescue more than 7,000 people.
Station honours
At Barmouth lifeboat station the following awards have been made:
Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum 8
Bronze Medal 1
Silver Medal 4.