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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]
Two former lifeboat houses remain, 1877 (private dwelling), 1903 (holiday let) Porth Ruffydd: Holy Island, Anglesey: 1891–1904 The steps, and some rubble, are all that remains of the former lifeboat station. [26] Cemlyn: Cemlyn, Anglesey: 1828–1872 1877–1919 Derelict, some foundations and slipway survive Cemaes: Porth yr Ogof, Cemaes ...
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.
Tramore Lifeboat Station closed officially in 1924, after a motor-powered lifeboat was placed at Dunmore East, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the east. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After service at Tramore, Aberdeen and Whitby , the Robert and Ellen Robson (ON 669) was fully restored, and now takes pride of place at the RNLI Museum in Whitby .
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.
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 ...
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