We’re very pleased to say that the review process that the lifeboat crew, St John Cymru, and HMCG have been working through has now been fully completed and all of Ferryside Lifeboat’s assets are available for service 24×7. We want to massively thank our community, volunteers and friends for their patience and support and we’re …
It is with sadness that we yesterday had to say goodbye to one of our longest serving crew members, Ship’s Dog, Blue. Blue will be very much missed around the lifeboat station, even though we will now be able to eat our bacon sandwiches in safety. Fair winds and blue sky Blue!
Ferryside is the coastal village which recently featured on the BBC programme ‘Sam and Shauna’s Big Cookout’, in which Sam and Shauna from Hang Fire restaurant in Barry spent a week discovering the delights of Ferryside. Their visit coincided with last year's Garden Crawl, and after a fantastic day of wandering around the village exploring …
Ferryside Lifeboat’s new rescue hovercraft was delivered on Saturday following its initial sea trials, and has now been handed over to the crew to start training on the craft before it goes fully operational. The craft was a little busier than expected though when, whilst it was undergoing trials, the lifeboat received a call regarding a …
Over the last week a number of Ferryside Lifeboat crew were suffering from the nerves and anxiety of taking a driving test again. These weren’t normal car tests though, these were for the Category H class of vehicles – to allow our crew to drive our new tracked launch vehicle – the Talus Although the Talus …
Hard to believe but that is now twenty-nine years of Garden Crawls! Thankfully this year we were spared the heavy rain of 2016 and consequently we had a fantastic response in visitor numbers. There was a serious shortage of parking spaces within the village, so thank you very much to the committee at ‘Calon y …
The replacement for our launch tractor arrived this weekend - creatiing a little excitement among the crew and a flurry of activity. Take a look at the nee vehicle and watch the crew training in how to drive it safely.
Having recently been awarded a UK government grant for an inshore rescue hovercraft, we’ve been busy working with a number of hovercraft companies around the UK to find a supplier. We’ve been through an in-depth selection process to find the company best placed to meet our very specific needs and we’re delighted to announce that Vortex Services have …
We're delighted to welcome a grant from the UK Government for a new rescue hovercraft - the first of it's kind in Wales.
This new craft will complement the existing Lifeboat in use at Ferryside and will help operations in low tide conditions, potentially leading to more lives being saved.
We received a massive boost last week, by way of a generous donation. A cheque for £2,500 was given to the Lifeboat by J and J Wilson Shops after they raised money from selling heritage products in their shops this year. The cheque was presented by Sue Murphy, manager of the company’s Pendine branch, and Trish …
This year, the Garden Crawl required a very necessary addition – an umbrella! The forecast all the previous week threatened poor weather, then changed its mind and then changed it back again. However, the Lifeboat crew was delighted that large numbers of people were still willing to turn out and support our event, visiting the …
Not the ideal weather, but a windy Easter Sunday was the date allocated to Ferryside lifeboat by the HM Coastguard helicopter rescue service to get to know the crew and craft of the helicopter team from St Athan. Everyone got involved with the helicopter, an AugustaWestland 139 (an additional larger helicopter, an AW189 is on …
Now that the sun is actually showing itself, and hopefully the rain is finally having a well-deserved rest, we can at last get out in the garden. The time seems right to give advance warning of this year’s Ferryside Garden Crawl. We are hoping, with good weather that is, to hold the Crawl on Sunday …
National Coastwatch Worm’s Head has posted some photos of Ferryside Lifeboat on a training exercise on the River Towy. The training took place on the Towy at high tide by Carmarthen bridge. The exercise simulated a casualty in the water who’d let off a distress flare. The boat quickly came alongside and recovered the casualty safely …
A big thank you to all who braved the gales and driving rain and came along to our annual New Year’s Day Dip at the foreshore. It was a bit of a mud run with the tide fully out but great fun as usual. Below is a picture of the brave fools who went in …