RNLI BRIXHAM

3 results for RNLI in BRIXHAM


  • 28, MIDDLE STREET, TQ5 8ER BRIXHAM | Phone : +44 (0) 1803 883570

    Funded by charitable donations, the lifeboat crews and lifeguards of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have saved over 139, 000 lives at sea since 1824.


  • TORBAY LIFEBOAT STATION/THE BREAKWATER, BERRY HEAD ROAD, TQ5 9AF BRIXHAM | Phone : 01803 853136

    Funded by charitable donations, the lifeboat crews and lifeguards of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have saved over 139, 000 lives at sea since 1824


  • BERRY HEAD ROAD, TQ5 9AF BRIXHAM | Phone : +44 (0) 1803 853136

    A station was established at Brixham in 1866. The Torquay Station was established in 1876 and was closed in 1923 when a motor lifeboat was placed at Brixham. In 1924 the Brixham station was renamed Torbay. A fleet of merchant ships were caught in Tor Bay when the wind moved suddenly to south-south-east blowing a hurricane, accompanied by heavy sleet, on 10/11 January 1866, causing the loss of 40 out of 60-70 ships that were sheltering there, and the tragic loss of nearly 100 lives. As a…

 

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