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Located near the Marina Slipway and the Lifeboat Station, this looks like a large wooden tub.
A plaque Link records that this was the buoy to which Friendship was moored in 1928. Amelia Earhart had been invited by American pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon to join their trans-Atlantic crossing as a passenger. She thus became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, after a flight of 20 hours 40 minutes from Newfoundland. The wooden buoy, at the time in Burry Port Harbour, was used to moor the Fokker Friendship aircraft when it landed on June 18th 1928. The buoy remained in use for many years. It was refurbished and installed here in 2003 for the 75th anniversary celebrations on June 18th 2003.