Abersoch Lifeboat Station
| Inshore Lifeboat | |
|---|---|
| Launch Method | Carriage |
| Address | Min-y-Don, Abersoch, Gwynedd, LL53 7AG |
| Telephone | 01758 713161 |
Explore two centuries of RNLI lifeboat history, heroic rescues, and the enduring tradition of saving lives at sea.
Overlooking the harbour at Abersoch, on the south-east of the Llŷn Peninsula, the station runs a fast Atlantic 85, covering the popular waters around St Tudwal’s Roads and Islands. A lifeboat first served this coast from 1844; the modern inshore station dates from 1965.
A lifeboat was first provided just south of the village at Penrhyn Dû in 1844 by the RNIPLS, overlooking St Tudwal’s Roads, and managed by a local committee; it operated until 1853. The RNLI established Abersoch Lifeboat Station in 1869, and just a year later the station won its first Silver Medal — to the Honorary Secretary, the Rev. Owen Lloyd Williams, for the rescue of thirteen men from the ship Kenilworth.
Rev. Williams received a Silver Second-Service Clasp in 1879 for his continued intrepid services in the Abersoch and neighbouring Porthdinllaen lifeboats. The station moved to a new boathouse and slipway on the south side of the bay in the 1890s.
The all-weather station closed in 1931, but as leisure boating grew an inshore station was established at Abersoch in 1965, moving into its present boathouse in 1994. Since 2015 it has run an Atlantic 85, the Peter and Ann Setten, answering the busy commercial and leisure traffic of this corner of Cardigan Bay.
