Ferryside RNLI Lifeboat Station, was located at Ferryside Beach in Ferryside, a village in the community of St Ishmael, on the east shore of the River Towy estuary, overlooking Carmarthen Bay, approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Carmarthen, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. A lifeboat station was first established at Laugharne in 1835, by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), but was closed in 1843.
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A new station was established at Ferryside in 1860, by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Ferryside RNLI Lifeboat Station closed in 1960. In the early 1960s, a surge of water-based leisure activity once again showed a need for a rescue service on the River Towy. Ferryside Lifeboat was established in 1966, under the guidance of St John Ambulance Cymru. It is now a 'declared facility' recognised by H.M. Coastguard, one of over seventy independent lifeboats around the shores of the British Isles, and operates as an Independent service. For more information, please see:– Ferryside Lifeboat