A special lifeboat day is being held in Newquay to mark the charity’s 200th anniversary.

Newquay RNLI Lifeboat Day will be held on Saturday, August 17, from 10am to 4pm.

There will be two separate starts to the day this year with the traditional parade start led by Kernow Pipes and Drums and the Joshua, a replica of Newquay’s oldest lifeboat, leaving from Marcus Hill at 10.30am.

Kernow Pipes and Drums ( )
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An alternative start at 10am will be on the harbour beach where Mr F-T will be doing a free rock pool ramble for children and their parents. It's free but donations will be welcome.

The parade will arrive at Newquay harbour for the official opening of Newquay RNLI Lifeboat Day at 11am, which will see Newquay inshore lifeboats, Uncle Johnny and ‘Enid Mildred’ will be launched to greet the volunteer crew of the ‘Spirit of Padstow’ all weather lifeboat.

Stormy Stan being accompanied by police officers ( )

Other attractions include Stormy Stan, carousel, face painting, coastguard, fire brigade, police diving team, RNLI Water safety team, RNLI face to face team, model lifeboats, Rotary with smack the rat, Newquay Society of Artists, stalls, quiz, raffle, teddies tombola, lucky dip and open the box.