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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]
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]
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 .
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In 1885, the John and Betty Cuttell (ON 184) was transferred to Upgang lifeboat station near Whitby, renamed Joseph Sykes, and Bamburgh received another 32-foot self-righting lifeboat built by Woolfe, a slightly older boat built in 1879, previously named City of Manchester at Ferryside Lifeboat Station.
Civil Service lifeboats are a group of lifeboats belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution which have been funded by The Lifeboat Fund. They usually have the Civil Service designation and number included in the name, such as RNLB E-001 Public Servant (Civil Service No. 44) , which was on service at Tower lifeboat station on the ...
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]