Lifeboat Station : Penlee
Main Contact Details
Penlee lifeboat station C/O Newlyn Harbour Office Newlyn Penzance Cornwall
TR18 5HW
Telephone
01736 369246
- Observe this station
Station Information
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Visitor Contact
Neil Brockman
Telephone
01736 369246
Station Opening Times
By appointment
Shop
Apr - Oct 10.30am - 4.30pm. Not open weekends until end of June. Tel: 01736 351695
Accessibility
Parking, disabled parking
About this station
Penlee has a remarkable history of bravery with the lifeboat crews being presented with 44 awards for gallantry during its 200-year history. The station has also witnessed tragedy with nine lifeboat crew losing their lives saving others at sea.
Recent launches in the southwest (BST)
08/09/2008
Sennen Cove - 14:1508/09/2008
Swanage - 13:5408/09/2008
Falmouth - 11:35
Last Launch
31/08/2008
Wrestling with the raging sea
27/07/2006
By: Liz Cook
The RNLI provides its volunteers with the best lifeboats, equipment and training for the job, and so it must. But sometimes, nothing is a match for the sheer ferocity of nature.
Triple naming at The Lifeboat College
29/08/2008
By: Laura Fennimore
Three RNLI relief fleet inshore lifeboats, funded by generous legacies, will be officially named in the Sea Survival Centre at The Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on Tuesday 2 September.
Clarification on Hope Cove incident
20/08/2008
By: Press office
Last week's incident at Hope Cove involved a Coastguard boat and team, not an RNLI lifeboat or crew.
Wave of success!
18/08/2008
By: Press office
The RNLI wishes to congratulate Team GB's Olympic sailors on their Beijing medal haul.