Baltimore Lifeboat
The Baltimore Lifeboat station is located at Bull point and
is home to the Hilda Jarrett, a Tyne class all-weather
lifeboat.
The Station was built in 1915, but owing to the First World
War, the first lifeboat did not arrive until 1919. This boat,
The Shamrock, was not replaced until 1950 and since
then there have been five other lifeboats stationed here.
The Baltimore Lifeboat has saved many lives: one of the most
famous of its rescues was of Charles Haughey, the former Fianna
Fail leader, whose boat went down off the Mizen in 1986. The
lifeboat also assisted in transferring an injured man to Bantry
Hospital following a mutiny aboard a Greek container ship
in 1974 and of course, it was also deeply involved in the
tragic Fastnet yacht race of the same year, when the Robert
was the first lifeboat to put to sea, and spent longer at
sea than any of the other lifeboats involved in that rescue
operation.
For more information on this excellent voluntary service, visit
the Baltimore Lifeboat website. |
