Teignmouth Lifeboat Station

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Teigtnmouth Lifeboat Station
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Teignmouth
General information
Type RNLI Lifeboat Station
LocationThe Point, TQ14 8EW
Country England
Coordinates 50°32′32″N3°29′53″W / 50.542157°N 3.497941°W / 50.542157; -3.497941
OpenedFirst lifeboat 1851
Present station 1862
Reopened1990
Owner Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Teignmouth Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Teignmouth, Devon in England. The first lifeboat was stationed in the town in 1851 but the station was closed from 1940 until 1990. Since 2006 it has operated an Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat (ILB).

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History

The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society sent a lifeboat to Teignmouth in 1851. It was kept near the Custom House in an earlier boathouse on the beach. In 1854 the Benevolent Society transferred its lifeboats to the RNLI. A new boathouse was provided on The Den with the doors facing the harbour and the River Teign. [1]

On 10 October 1907 the lifeboat Alfred Staniforth was launched to aid the schooner Tehwija which had run aground near the mouth of the river with eight crewmen on board. It took the lifeboat crew two attempts to row out over the bar at the mouth of the river into the heavy seas. The ship's crew were pulled off but within fifteen minutes the storm had completely wrecked the grounded ship. W.J. Burden, the Honorary Secretary of the lifeboat station, had gone out in the lifeboat to steer it while Coxswain George Rice and the bowman added extra power to the oars. Burden and Rice were both awarded RNLI Silver Medals for their work that day. [1]

The RNLI started to deploy motor lifeboats after World War I which allowed stations to cover larger areas. Brixham Lifeboat Station received theirs in 1922 and Exmouth in 1933 but the 'pulling and sailing' boat at Teignmouth was retained until 6 November 1940. The Henry Finlay (ON 618) was then left in the boathouse on standby through World War II but the station was closed permanently in July 1945. [1]

On 3 November 1990 the RNLI reopened Teignmouth as an inshore lifeboat station. The old boathouse had been used as a café for a few years but was available for conversion back into a boathouse, which was completed in 1991. [1]

Description

The boathouse is a single storey masonry building. The slate roof overhangs both sides by a considerable extent and is supported on upright posts. When it was refurbished for its 1991 reopening, a fund-raising gift shop was installed under the eastern overhang.

Large doors open onto the road. When the lifeboat is to be launched, a small County tractor (RNLI No. TA21; registration WCL 764X) pushes it on its 'bedstead' carriage down the road opposite to a slipway on the harbour.

Area of operation

The Atlantic 85 can go out in Force 6/7 winds (Force 5/6 at night) and can operate at up to 35 knots (65 km/h) for 2½ hours. [2] Adjacent lifeboats – both ILBs and larger all-weather lifeboats – are stationed at Exmouth to the east, and Torbay to the west. [3]

Teignmouth lifeboats

Pulling and sailing lifeboats

At Teignmouth [4] ON [lower-alpha 1] NameBuiltClassComments
1851–1863Teignmouth1851 Beeching 28 feet (8.5 m) self-righting boat designed by James Beeching for the SFMRBS. [1] [5]
1863–1864China1863 Peake 33 feet (10 m) experimental iron self-righter. [1] [5]
1864–1887China1864 Peake 32 feet (9.8 m) boat. Renamed Arnold in 1880. [1] [5]
1887–189642The Arnold1887 Peake 34 feet (10 m) boat. [1]
1896–1930363Alfred Staniforth1894 Peake 34 feet (10 m) boat. [1]
1931–1940618Henry Finlay1911 Peake 35 feet (11 m) boat, formerly at Macrihanish. Sold in 1945 and reported under restoration at Dartmouth in 2008.

Inshore Lifeboats

At TeignmouthOp. No. [lower-alpha 2] NameClassComments
1990B-538Lord Brotherton Atlantic 21 On station for just two weeks in November. [1]
1990–1991B-533(no name) Atlantic 21 [1]
1991–2006B-588Frank and Dorothy Atlantic 21 [6]
2006–B-809The Two Annes Atlantic 85
2013–A-67Malcolm Hawkesford I Arancia
  1. ↑ ON is the RNLI's Official Number of the boat.
  2. ↑ Op. No. is the RNLI's Operational Number of the boat carried on the hull.

Station Honours

The following are awards made at Teignmouth [7]

John B Bulkeley, Coxswain - 1864
William Stuggins, Second Coxswain - 1870
Mr William Burden, Honorary Secretary - 1907
George Rice, Coxswain - 1907
Daniel McCarthy (age 17) - 1997
Luke McCarthy (age 19) - 1997
Humphrey Vince - 2008
Charlie Woolnough - 2008
Nicola White - 2008
Adam Truhol - 2008
William Burton - 2010
Richard Boss - 2010
Kevin Clifton - 2010
Dave Matthews - 2010

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Leach 2009, pp. 10–12.
  2. ↑ Wake-Walker 2008, p. 113.
  3. ↑ Denton 2009, pp. 67–68.
  4. ↑ Leonard, Richie; Denton, Tony (2023). Lifeboat Enthusiasts Handbook 2023. Lifeboats Enthusiasts Society. pp. 2–128.
  5. 1 2 3 Leonard, Richie; Denton, Tony (2021). Lifeboat Enthusiasts Handbook 2021 (2021 ed.). Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society. pp. 2–18.
  6. ↑ Denton 2009, p. 43.
  7. ↑ "Teignmouth's Station history". RNLI. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

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