RNLI Baltimore Lifeboat Station

RNLI Chairman Charles Hunter Pease with Kieran Cotter, Mary Creedon and Peter Crowley visit the Fastnet Rock with Baltimore Lifeboat’s Tamar Alan Massey

An outdoor exhibition showcasing striking photos of the lifesaving work of the RNLI in Ireland and the UK will be displayed on Grand Canal Square Dublin from Friday 15 November to Monday 2 December. The unique display will be freely available to view by everyone, 24 hours a day in [...]

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has announced that it is to trial a new lifeboat station at Union Hall in south west Cork. At a meeting of the RNLI Board of Trustees the decision was taken to establish an inshore lifeboat station at Union Hall for a trial period [...]

The film recalling the dramatic rescue of 23 people from a steamship off Baltimore during the First World War was finished on Sunday after a very busy weekend. A professional film crew from the UK, sponsored by Arts Council England, visited Baltimore to produce the film in a collaboration with [...]

After many weeks of planning we are finally ready to roll cameras. The community hall has been transformed into a stage set with drapes and lights. Props have been collected and costumes altered. Tomorrow we begin shooting the film that will relate the story of the SS Alondra rescue through [...]

The role of Baltimore in the rescue of 23 people from a steamship called Alondra which was wrecked off the Kedges in late 1916, is to be featured in an RNLI touring exhibition commemorating the centenary of World War One (WW1). The charity’s exhibition, funded by Arts Council England, is [...]

On the 3rd of October we welcomed two guests John and Sheila Smith to our newly refurbished boathouse at Bull Point, Baltimore. John and Sheila were visiting the station as representatives of benefactors Alec Christopher and Elizabeth Olive Thompson, who bequested money to the RNLI, which was spent on our Station Boathouse redevelopment. On their arrival [...]

Sending a big thank you to everyone who came to support our Open Day yesterday.

RNLI volunteer lifeboat crews in Ireland were kept busy this summer, with the charity’s lifeboats launching 571 times during the months of June, July and August.  The figure represents an increase of 43 per cent on the previous summer. While many people were enjoying the prolonged sunshine and the hottest [...]