Teignmouth Lifeboat Station

Teignmouth Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Teignmouth, Devon in England. The rst
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).

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.

History
3 Area of operation

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]

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
2 hours.[2] Adjacent lifeboats both ILBs and larger allweather lifeboats are stationed at Exmouth to the east,
and Torbay to the west.[3]

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 ships crew were pulled o but within
fteen 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]

4 Lifeboats
'ON' is the RNLIs sequential Ocial Number; 'Op. No.'
is the operational number painted onto the boat.

4.1 Pulling and sailing lifeboats

4.2 Inshore lifeboats

5 See also

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 was then left in the boathouse on standby
through World War II but the station was closed permanently in July 1945.[1]

List of RNLI stations

6 References
[1] Leach, Nicholas (2009). Devons Lifeboat Heritage.
Chacewater: Twelveheads Press. pp. 1012. ISBN 9780-906294-72-7.

On 3 November 1990 the RNLI reopened Teignmouth as

an inshore lifeboat station. The old boathouse had been
used as a caf for a few years but was available for conversion back into a boathouse, which was completed in
1991.[1]

[2] Wake-Walker, Edward (2008). The Lifeboats Story.

Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-75094858-6.
[3] Denton, Tony (2009). Handbook 2009. Shrewsbury:
Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society. pp. 6768.

Description

[4] Denton, Tony (2009). pp. 1011. Missing or empty |title= (help)

The boathouse is a single storey masonry building. The

slate roof overhangs both sides by a considerable extent

[5] Denton, Tony (2009). p. 43. Missing or empty |title=

(help)

[6] Denton, Tony (2009). p. 44. Missing or empty |title=

(help)

External links
Ocial station website
RNLI station information

EXTERNAL LINKS

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