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St Davids Lifeboat Station (based in St Justinian, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station. It was opened in 1869 and to date has been involved in saving over 360 lives at sea in more than 420 launches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11505713 )〕 The station operates both an all-weather and an inshore lifeboat. ==History== The station was established by the RNLI in 1869 following appeals from local residents after a number of shipwrecks nearby. The Institution had already awarded a silver medal to local man Thomas M Rees for risking his life in an incident in 1867. The station, consisting of a boathouse and slipway at Porthstinan (St Justinians), was provided with the 32-foot ''Augusta'', donated by the Earl of Dartmouth. ''Augusta'' remained in service until 1885, saving 23 lives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stdavids-rnli.org.uk/history/history-2/ )〕 From 1885 to 1910 16 lives were saved by the crew of the station's new lifeboat, ''Gem''. The lifeboat was wrecked on The Bitches reef during a rescue on 13 October 1910, and three crewmen drowned: Coxswain John Stephens, and lifeboatmen Henry Rowlands and James Price. Papers concerning the loss are held at Pembrokeshire Record Office (Ref:DX/93/11).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/includes/centres/cmhs/ELMAP/location.php?loc_id=76 )〕 A temporary lifeboat, ''Charlotte'', was stationed at Porthclais for two years; meanwhile, a new station and slipway were constructed to accommodate the station's first motor-powered lifeboat, ''General Farrell''.〔 ''General Farrell'' remained on station until 1936, her crew saving 17 lives in the intervening years. She was replaced by ''Swn-y-Mor'' which saw one of the busiest periods in the station's history, her crews saving 108 lives in her 26 years of service which was marked in 1956 by the loss of lifeboatman Ieuan Bateman. A couple of years earlier the tanker ''World Concord'' broke in two in hurricane-force winds; a combined effort by St Davids and Rosslare Harbour lifeboats rescued 42 people from the tanker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rosslareharbourlifeboat.com/history )〕 ''Swn-y-Mor'' had been donated by the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund, and the same institution donated the next lifeboat, ''Joseph Soar'', in 1963. Already fitted with some innovative equipment, she was converted for self-righting in 1974, and during her tenure the crew saved 45 lives.〔 As of 2015, Swn-y-Mor was still operating as a private yacht, rigged as gaff ketch motor sailer.〔http://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/details/519/GL-Watson-46-ft-Gaff-Ketch-Motor-Sailer-1936/yacht-for-sale/〕 ''Joseph Soar'' was transferred to Dunbar in 1985 sold by the RNLI in 1992 where she was given a civic send-off at Poole; as of 2012 she was still operating, as a pleasure craft in Northern Ireland, and undergoing a complete refit in 2013. She had the distinction of having one of the longest services (27 years) in the RNLI's history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/2329/joseph-soar )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hloa.org/content/joseph-soar-50th-birthday-refit )〕 From 1985 to 1988 the station's all-weather lifeboat was ''Ruby & Arthur Reed'', formerly on station at Cromer where she had already been involved in saving 58 lives and enabled a further 9 lives to be saved at St Davids. She was replaced by ''Garside'', a new Tyne class lifeboat which, until superseded in 2013 by Tamar class lifeboat ''Norah Wortley'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22149705 )〕 had been launched more than 160 times. After the withdrawal of the RAF Rescue Service helicopter from nearby RAF Brawdy, St Davids trialled an inshore lifeboat in 1997, and the following year took possession of a permanent addition to the station of a D-class ILB, ''Dewi Sant'' (''Saint David''). This was replaced in 2008 by ''Myrtle & Trevor Gurr''. The lifeboat station and slipways were modernised extensively in the 1990s.〔 In April 2013 St. David's New lifeboat was placed on station, temporarily moored afloat pending construction of the new boathouse and slipway. In certain weather conditions, the Tamar has to be removed to a safe anchorage and for this reason the Tyne class ''Garside'' has remained on station in the original boathouse, with St Davids in the unusual situation of operating two ALBs at the same time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stdavids-rnli.org.uk/boats/allweather-lifeboat/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Davids Lifeboat Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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