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October 11th 2009
Fishing competition
Gateway Holiday Park Welsh Flounder Festival. Please click here for details

Latest News

September 5th 2009
One of our fundraising and publicity days at St Elli Shopping Centre in Llanelli. Our crew and boat were on display throughout the day. This is a good local publicity day for us to speak to the locals. We raised£791.50 on the day and even had a new member of crew join us. Thank you all for supporting us again !

August 22nd 2009
Festival of the tides in Penclawdd went really well. We supported the raft race by providing Safety Boat cover. While on the water that evening, we had to perform a live rescue, as someone fell in and needed our help. Thanks again for all your support and kind generosity.

June 27th 2009
Pontardullais and Hendy Carnival went well, We hope to attend this event yearly, on the last Saturday of June. We were at the front of all the floats, we set off from Hendy and proceeded in the procession to Pontardullais.

June 20th 2009
Loughor Regatta, held yearly at Loughor Boating Club was a great success. The weather was great and plenty of water activities on offer for the day. It also gives us a great opportunity to interact with our locals and show them around our station.

The Coxswain and crew would like to thank everyone who attended the fishing competition on Sunday 18th of January 2009.

Latest Callouts

09 September 2009
At 23.01 the crews pagers sounded for immediate launch. A female has been reported missing and had possibly entered the water. The Lifeboat launched and was sent towards Salthouse point near Penclawdd to commence a search. However after 25 minutes, all units were stood down as the person was found safe and well ashore. The Lifeboat was refuelled and ready for service at 23.55
 
Other units involved were Loughor Mobile with the Police Helicopter (X99) and Police ground units from Dyfed Powys and South Wales.

22 August 2009
As the Lifeboat was providing cover for the raft race at the annual Penclawdd festival of the tides, Crew member Lucy Mansfield who was ashore at the time spotted a young child fall into the river, she was able to contact the crew who were able to reach the child and administer first aid,  Another crew member contacted the ambulance service as the child was showing signs of Hypothermia. When the emergency ambulance arrived they treated the child and the Lifeboat returned to the raft race.

18 August 2009 03.30
Loughor Lifeboat crew were woken from their beds by the pagers alerting them to a vessel broken down off Salthouse point near Penclawdd. launching with 5 crew on board, the Lifeboat was alongside the casualty within 15 minutes of the call, finding a fishing vessel with 2 persons on board at anchor suffering from engine failure. A crew member from the Lifeboat was put onboard the casualty vessel to assist with the tow and the vessel was taken back up the narrow channel to its mooring at Penclawdd. Once the vessel was secure on its mooring the Lifeboat then returned to station. It was ready for service at 05.00

07 July 2009 17.30
The crew of Loughor Inshore Lifeboat launched both the IRB, Auxiliary boat and also shore crew to assist in the search for a missing person from the Gorseinon area. After 2 hours searching, all units were stood down as the person had been found safe and well on land.

24 May 2009 18.00
As the lifeboat was booking out on exercise with Swansea Coastguard, the Lifeboat was informed that Burry port RNLI Lifeboat had been paged to the report of a person cut off by the tide at the North dock, Llanelli. Swansea Coastguard asked Loughor IRB to also attend. As the Lifeboat passes the golf course at Machynys point, Swansea Coastguard informed them they could stand down as Burry Port RNLI had recovered the Casualty.

18th March 2009

Paged to launch by Swansea Coastguard at 2015hrs.
Reports of a 'canoeist' overdue.
He had left Burry Port and overran his ETA at Loughor. The canoeist became disorientated eventually running out of water due to the dropping tide. Other units included: Burry Port Lifeboat, Loughor and Burry Port CRT's and RAF Chivenor (rescue 169). After a search in the darkness a  rather muddy canoeist  was located having managed to make shore at Penclawdd. Following treatment and assessment, he   left for home 2hrs 15 mins after initial page.

27th January 2009
Paged by Swansea Coastguard at approx. 22:10 in response to reports of a missing person with potential to enter the water. IRB launched on an ebbing tide consequently water depth was low and dropping. After a 50 minute search and having received reports of sightings of the missing person on land, the IRB returned to station. RAF Chivenor, Loughor and Burry Port auxiliary coastguards were also involved with the search.

25th January 2009
Launched in response to reports of a vessel stuck outside Loughor Bridge. After a thorough search, nothing was found and the crew returned to station

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