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New Quay Lifeboat Station This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 19:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The first powered lifeboat at New Quay was the Liverpool-class St Albans (ON 863) [5] which served from 1948 to 1970. An inshore lifeboat and boathouse was added in 1967. In 1970 an Oakley-class lifeboat, Bird's Eye (ON 996), was donated to the station by Bird's Eye Foods Ltd.
The main church of Carron/New Quay parish is the St. Columba Church in Carron, built in 1861 by Fr. James Gleeson. [3] The second church of the parish is the Church of St. Patrick in New Quay. The original church from 1840 was later replaced by a new one that was blessed in 1939. [4]
New Quay is in the civil parish of Abbey and the historical barony of Burren. [1] [3] It is within the ecclesiastical parish of Carron & New Quay in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. [4] The former holiday home of Lady Gregory, Mount Vernon Lodge, is located in a neighbouring townland, also called New Quay. [5]
New Quay (Welsh: Cei Newydd) is a seaside town, community and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales; it had a resident population of 1,045 at the 2021 census. [1] Located 19 miles (31 km) south-west of Aberystwyth, on Cardigan Bay with a harbour and large sandy beaches, the town lies on the Ceredigion Coast Path and the Wales Coast Path.
New Quay village is immediately east of and downstream of the similar port of Morwellham Quay (now the heart of an open-air museum). New Quay was an important copper, tin and later arsenic port serving the local mines including the George and Charlotte Mine, Bedford Consolidated Mine and Gawton Arsenic Mine.
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
Newquay Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Newquay, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It operates two lifeboats , Atlantic 85 The Gladys Mildred (B-821) and D-class (IB1) Enid Mary (D-773).