Lifeboat Station : Horton and Port Eynon
Main Contact Details
Telephone
01792 390424
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Station Information
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Visitor Contact
S W Davies
Telephone
01792 422752
Station Opening Times
9:30am - 1pm Sunday Don't Miss: Crew Training 9:30am - 1pm Sunday
Shop
9:30 - 1pm Sunday
Accessibility
Disabled Access
About this station
For over 70 years a lifeboat has covered the Horton and Port Eynon area of the south Gower coast. The crews have been presented with five awards for gallantry but sadly the station has also witnessed tragedy with three crew losing their lives.
Recent launches in wales (BST)
06/01/2009
Moelfre - 09:3704/01/2009
Rhyl - 18:4904/01/2009
Fishguard - 12:52
Last Launch
27/09/2008
Lifeboats, camera, action
09/01/2009
By: Katie Wilton
New Quay Crew Member Hanna Nuuttila is the RNLI Pentax photographer of the year 2008, it has been announced at the London International Boat Show.
D class named at St Davids
25/11/2008
By: Jim Phillips
Despite the poor weather, crowds flocked to St Davids on Sunday to see the naming of the station's new D class lifeboat Myrtle and Trevor Gurr.
RNLI Compass Autumn 2008
01/10/2008
By: RNLI
Read more stories from Wales, West Mercia and the Isle of Man in Compass, available here.
Family rescued from grounded RIB
15/09/2008
By: Peter Wright
A rigid inflatable boat with two adults and two children onboard ran aground in Conwy Bay on Saturday afternoon.
Holyhead lifeboat leads historic procession
01/09/2008
By: Ray Steadman
A flotilla of gaff-rigged wooden boats sailed into Holyhead on 31 August, led by the town's Severn class lifeboat Christopher Pearce.