Falmouth Lifeboat

Falmouth Lifeboat Station
Tinners Walk
Port Pendennis
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 3XZ

Historical Facts about the Falmouth Lifeboat

'The History of the Falmouth Lifeboats'. is a complete history of the Falmouth Lifeboats from 1867 to 1998 by Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society. You can order a copy here

Awards made to the Crew since 1829

You can obtain a text file from our email library that contains an extract from the Royal Cornwall Gazette September 5,1867.

This describes the arrival of the Lifeboat in Falmouth the street parade and Launching.

You can purchase a copy of Early Lifeboats of Cornwall from Willow Books Cornwall's on line Book shop

Just do a Title Search on Lifeboats.

The Lifeboats of Falmouth

The Coxswains

1866-1887
ON 118 - City of Gloucester
Jane Whittingham
Legacy of M Whittingham of London.

1887-1894
ON 372 Bob Newbon
Legacy of Mr. R.A. Newbon of London.

1922-1928
ON 417 Jane Anne
Legacy of Mr.G.Nicholls of London.

1928-1931
ON 664 Herbert Sturmy
Legacy of Mrs H. Sturmy of Blackheath.

1931-1934
ON 671 The Brothers
Gift of Mesdanes Eddy, Torquay.

1934-1940
ON 687 B.A.S.P.
Amalgamation of legacies.

1940 -1968
ON 829 Crawford and Constance Coneybeare
Gift of Mrs Coneybeare of London.

1968 -1974
ON 928 Lilla Marras,*
Douglas and Will Legacies Mrs J Marra
Mr J Douglas Mr W Kennedy.

*Previously stationed at Cromarty where she launched on 24 occasions and saved 10 lives.

1974 -1979
ON 1031 ROTARY SERVICE
(Thames)
Gift of Rotary International Great Britain and Ireland and legacies of Mr D I Craig, Mary Ann Redgate and Mary Conbronge Fowkes

1979-1997
ON 1058 ELIZABETH ANN
(Arun)
Gift of John Slater Foundation, Sir Kirby Laing Foundation and
a number of other gifts and legacies.

1997-2001
ON1201 The Will
(Severn)
For a full description of "The Will" and the background to the
name please check out the page here

2001-todate
ON 1256 Richard Cox Scott
(Severn)
Principally funded by a bequest from Mrs Ruth Marygolg Dix Scott, who passed away in May 1998, bequeathing her residuary estate to the RNLI . Mrs Scott had a love for the sea since her childhood and had lived in Cornwall for many years. The Lifeboat is named after her late Husband.

1867-1873	John Hurley
1873-1875	Thomas Medlin
1875-1882	John Roberts
1882-1898	Edwin Hall
1898-1901	Francis Jose
1901-1919	Samuel Hingston
1919-1921	William Tonkin
1921-1930	John Dunstone
1930-1947	John Snell
1947-1960	Charles Brown
1960-1972	Bert West
1972-1975	Walter Brown
1975-1980	Arthur West
1980-1989	Vivian Pentecost
1989-1991	John Barton
1991-2005	Alan Barnes
2005-	Mark Pollard

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