Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lifeboat Memorial
Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Goodwick, Fishguard, Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, designated on 7 January 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 7 January 2002
- Locality
- Goodwick
- Town
- Fishguard
- Community
- Fishguard and Goodwick
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.00499, -4.99514
- Cadw reference
- 26068
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on retaining wall to New Hill, at head of Station Hill.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Goodwick InstituteRecreationalunder 1 mi
- RosslynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Berachah CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Berachah Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.