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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]
Between 1802 (when the first lifeboat was launched at Whitby) and 2009, 24 lifeboat crew members were lost from Whitby. Their names are commemorated in the RNLI memorial at Poole in Dorset. A news report in 2022 stated that in its more than 200-year history, the Whitby lifeboat had been launched over 2,900 times, and saved over 1,230 people. [26]
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 .
Lifeboat house demolished after 1936. No evidence remains. Site recently redeveloped. Hythe, Sandgate & Folkestone: Seabrook, Kent: 1876–1893 Lifeboat house demolished in 1956. No evidence remains. Hythe: Hythe, Kent: 1893–1940 Two boathouses still remain, one located behind the second. Dymchurch: Dymchurch, Kent: 1826–1838
An all-weather lifeboat station with a slipway for launching. Inshore lifeboat station, which uses a carriage to launch lifeboats. Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stations are the bases for the RNLI's fleet of search and rescue lifeboats that cover the coastal waters around the entire British Isles, as well as major inland waterways.
Usually, the lifeboat was launched by horses but none were available, so a contingent of humans (mostly women) wheeled the boat down to the shoreline. One of the women undertaking this was crushed to death under the wheels of the trailer carrying the boat. [28] This led to the construction of a slipway onto the beach opposite the lifeboathouse ...
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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 ).