Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
07/01/2002
Date of Amendment
07/01/2002
Name of Property
Lifeboat Memorial
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Fishguard and Goodwick
Location
Situated on retaining wall to New Hill, at head of Station Hill.
Broad Class
Commemorative
History
Set of 4 memorial plaques to lives saved by successive Fishguard lifeboats from 1856 to 1961, presumably installed in late C19 or early C20.
Exterior
Four slate plaques with gilded incised lettering, set into retaining wall of approximately 30m length, with slate sill below. First plaque has list of lives saved by the Fishguard No 1 lifeboats 1856-92. Second plaque is longer, lives saved by the No 2 lifeboat 1885-1915, third plaque is of lives saved 1917-56 and the fourth of lives saved 1957-61.
Reason for designation
Included for historical interest as memorial to over a century of lives saved by the Fishguard lifeboats.
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