Mumbles Coastguard
The Mumbles Coastguard at Tutt Head
The replacement building was in service from 1970 to 2015 and then it was used as offices and for storage. Theft of a section of the lead on the roof, complicated matters.
Post 1970.
Post 1979.
The entrance road to the new Mumbles Coastguard Station.
The Mumbles Coastguard at Tutt Head
From 1850 to 1970
by Bet Ogbourne & Pat Symmons
... operational on Mumbles Hill and by the 1870s, it was decided to build a Coastguard Station, for Officers and their families. It was constructed in the form of a square ...
by John Jeffers
Mumbles Coastguard Station, Westbourne Place By John Jeffers The Mumbles Coastguard Station, then at Westbourne Place, was much larger than we had previously experienced. It was the Divisional Headquarters where ..
Coastguard Lifesaving Apparatus Crew (LSA) 1919.
Mumbles LSA at Practice, 1919.
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Mrs Joan Jones served in the WRNS at The Naval Signal Station at The Tutt, Bracelet Bay, Mumbles.
The Royal Navy took over The Coastguard Station during WW2
The photo shows a group of the WRNS, with Joan Joans on the left, then Peggy, and fourth from left is the Cook, Jean.
by John Powell and Kate Elliott Jones
The Fort on Lighthouse Island as well as The Coastguard Lookout & Naval Signal Station at the Tutt were controlled from the same headquarters.
by Carol Powell M.A.
... John, Assistant Secretary of the Lifeboat Committee and his wife; Stanley Poolton, H.M. Coastguard; Tom Way; Jack Gammon (Lifeboat mechanic); Mumbles’ own Harry Libby, Mayor of Swansea in that ...
by Carol Powell M.A.
... the Mumbles Head, to get to from Mumbles to Limeslade or Broadslade (Bracelet). The Coastguard Station at Church Parks The main Coastguard station was at Church Parks, consisting of a ...
by Kate Jones
and the S. S. Samtampa by Kate Jones (written in 2007) On 23rd April 1947, an appalling tragedy took place on the coast of Glamorgan. A former Liberty cargo ship ...
A collection of three Memories:- Peter Dover-Wade said, 'I remember well the night of the storm and that on hearing of the tragedy, my friend and I, both sixteen ...'
by Tom Ace
by Tom Ace During the war, we were called out 23 times and saved 137 lives. I remember two occasions especially.
An extract from The Tithe map 1804
The first Coastguard Station was positioned on Mumbles Hill and its signaal mast can be glimpsed at the top of this early photo.
Congratulations to HM Coastguard which marked its 200th anniversary on Saturday 15 January 2022
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