Penlee Lifeboat Station
| Penlee Lifeboat Station | |
| RNLI lifeboat station | |
 The 1983-built crew facilities
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| County | Cornwall |
| Town | Newlyn |
| Location | Newlyn Harbour, TR18 5HW |
| - coordinates | 50°06′14″N 5°32′55″W / 50.1039°N 5.5487°WCoordinates: 50°06′14″N 5°32′55″W / 50.1039°N 5.5487°W |
| Founded | At Penlee Point 1913 At Newlyn 1983 |
| Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
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Penlee Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations for Mount's Bay in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The lifeboat station was opened at Penlee Point in Mousehole in 1913 but was moved to Newlyn in 1983. The station is remembered for the loss of the entire crew of the Solomon Browne on 19 December 1981.
Since 2003 it has operated a Severn-class all weather boat (ALB) and an Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat (ILB).
The first lifeboat in Cornwall was purchased for Penzance in 1803. Part of its cost was paid by Lloyd's of London but in 1812, it was sold without ever being used in service and was not replaced. In 1824 a District Association was formed. It was part of the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck and the next lifeboat in Mount's Bay was again stationed at Penzance from 1826 to 1828 by the recently formed Institution. The boat was kept at several different places around the town until a boathouse was built in 1856, for £88, by the RNLI (as the Institution was now known). The boathouse cost £88 and was, at what is now the entrance to the railway station. Once tidal there is now a road and car park between the site and the water's edge. There was local controversy when the boat did not launch on several occasions in 1862, and as a consequence, there was a proposal to move the lifeboat to Newlyn which would have been unpopular with the residents of Penzance. As a compromise the lifeboat station moved to Wherrytown where a new timber lifeboat house was opened in 1867 at the bottom of Alexandra Road, near the Coastguard Station. A decision was made to move back to Penzance harbour and in 1884 a new boathouse built of Lamorna granite at a cost of £575–6s–6d. This was paid for by a £1000 gift from Henry Martn Harvey of Hexworthy, which also paid for a new lifeboat (Dora) and carriage. This was in use until 1917 and still stands at the bottom of Jennings Street.
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