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Closed when the Khyber Pass was cut in the town, [note 2] [11] so the lifeboat house was moved further inland. [12] Whitby No.1: 1847–1957: Whitby Landward Pier, on the west side of the river, opposite the Old East Pier Now the Whitby Lifeboat Museum (rebuilt 1895) Whitby No.2 1822–1963 Whitby East Pier, East side of the river (by the old ...
A crew from Whitby made up the numbers on the lifeboat until such a time as all men on the boat were recruited locally. [5] [11] [12] The lifeboat house was built to a standard design by the official RNLI architect, and was placed just inland from the main slipway into the sea at Robin Hood's Bay, on land donated by Sir Charles Strickland. [13]
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Upgang Lifeboat Station was located just over 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Whitby Harbour, midway between Whitby and Sandsend, on the coast of North Yorkshire. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1865, effectively a No.3 station for Whitby Lifeboat Station .
The lifeboat station itself was supplied by Lord Zetland, and the modern day (1970s) lifeboat station is located on this site too. [3] A former lifeboat house was built in 1877 to house the lifeboat Emma and is now grade II listed. [9]
In order to save the crew, the lifeboat from Whitby was pulled 6 miles (9.7 km) overland by 18 horses, with the 7-foot (2.1 m) deep snowdrifts present at the time cleared by 200 men. The road down to the sea through Robin Hood's Bay village was narrow and had awkward bends, and men had to go ahead demolishing garden walls and uprooting bushes ...
Scarborough Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) operated lifeboat station in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. A lifeboat was established at Scarborough in 1801, which makes it the third oldest lifeboat station in the United Kingdom (after Montrose and Sunderland ).
Swanage Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station [1] located on Peveril Point in the town of Swanage in Dorset, England. It operates two lifeboats, the Shannon-class All-weather lifeboat 13-13 George Thomas Lacy (ON 1320) and the D-class (IB1) inshore lifeboat (ILB) Roy Norgrove (D-884).