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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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
10.30am-4.30pm 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)
20/07/2008
Penlee - 16:3520/07/2008
Exmouth - 14:2320/07/2008
Mudeford - 13:25
Last Launch
Launched this week
Version 1 18072008
18/07/2008
By: South West Region
All you need to know about the history of the St Agnes lifeboat Blue Peter IV and her crew's lifesaving services over the past 40 years can be found in the St Agnes Lifeboat Yearbook 2008 - 2009.
Lakeman album launch for RNLI
18/07/2008
By: Tamsin Thomas
Seth Lakeman, whose new album Poor Man's Heaven entered the UK album chart at number 8, chose the RNLI to benefit from his album launch in memory of the volunteer crew of the Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne, who lost their lives in 1981.
New recycling partners
07/07/2008
By: Rhys Parker
Millions of cartridges and mobile phones are discarded every year.
RNLI lifeguards for Kennack Sands
04/07/2008
By: Amy Caldwell
RNLI lifeguards will patrol Kennack Sands beach in Cornwall for the first time from Saturday 12 July.
All-new press centre launched
03/07/2008
By: Mairead Dwane
The online multimedia press centre is the latest addition to rnli.org.uk.