Atlantic College Lifeboat Station
| Atlantic College Lifeboat Station | |
|---|---|
Atlantic College Lifeboat Station | |
| General information | |
| Status | Closed |
| Type | RNLI Lifeboat Station |
| Location | St Donat's Castle |
| Address | St Donats |
| Town or city | Llantwit Major, CF61 1WF |
| Country | Wales, UK |
| Coordinates | 51°24′5″N 3°31′57″W / 51.40139°N 3.53250°W |
| Opened | 1963 |
| Closed | 2013 |
Atlantic College Lifeboat Station was an Inshore lifeboat station based at Atlantic College, which is located on the Bristol Channel coast of South Wales, at St Donats, near Llantwit Major.
The station opened in 1963, shortly after the school had been launched the previous autumn, as one of the first nine experimental inshore lifeboat stations established by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The station pioneered innovative boatbuilding techniques, including inventing the Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) and creating the prototype for the Atlantic 21-class lifeboat in the early 1970s.
The RNLI withdrew the lifeboat from Atlantic College in June 2013.