Scarborough Lifeboat Station | |
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General information | |
Type | RNLI Lifeboat Station |
Location | West Pier |
Address | Foreshore Road |
Town or city | Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 1PB |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 54°17′00″N0°23′35″W / 54.2833°N 0.3930°W |
Opened | 2016 |
Cost | £3 million |
Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
Website | |
Official webpage |
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). [1]
Since its opening in 1801 to the present day, a total of 16 crewmen have been lost whilst attempting rescues from the Scarborough lifeboat. [2] In 2016, a new station was opened on the site of the previous one. This houses two lifeboats; 13-15 Frederick William Plaxton (ON1322), a Shannon-class lifeboat and the John Wesley Hillard IV (D-856), an Inshore D-class lifeboat. [3]
The first lifeboat in Scarborough was instituted by public donation costing just over £212 [4] and saw its first launch in November 1801, when it went to the aid of a stricken vessel named Aurora in Scarborough Bay. [5] The first boat was actually built in Scarborough to a design by Henry Greathead, who had designed and built a boat for Whitby and Redcar lifeboat stations. [6] A replacement boat was built and supplied to the rescue crews in the town in 1823. [7] The first lifeboat station was at the junction of Foreshore Road and Valley Road in the town. In 1821, the station was relocated near to its present site by the West Pier in the harbour, however it was on the landward side of Foreshore Road. [5]
To aid with fundraising, two cast iron pillar collection boxes were erected in the early 1870s, one at the Old Cliff, just down from the Grand Hotel, next to the gates to the Spa Bridge, and a second one outside the Crown Hotel on the Esplanade. [8]
In 1914, the Scarborough Lifeboat Queensbury was despatched to assist in the rescue of the SS Rohilla off the coast at Whitby. Like many other lifeboats used in the rescue, she couldn't get near to the Rohilla because of the swell. [9]
In 1940, a new lifeboat station was built next to the West Pier; the old lifeboat house was later converted into an amusement arcade on the seafront. [10] The 1940 lifeboathouse had to be adapted for the larger Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs in 1991, which involved widening and heightening the door. [11]
A new lifeboat station was opened in 2016, which had been designed by the York architectural firm of Brierley Groom. [12] Approval for the new £3 million building was granted by the Borough Council in 2014. [13]
In 2018, the coxswain of the crew was dismissed; the RNLI released a statement that he had organised an operational training exercise without proper authority. The former coxswain stated that he had "the blessing and clearance of the lifeboat operations manager and several others". [14] After a groundswell of support for the sacked individual, the RNLI later released a further statement detailing their decision to stand down the coxswain citing the lack of trained professionals on the boat when she was put to sea in rough weather. [15]
The following are awards made at Scarborough [22] [23]
ON [lower-alpha 1] | Op. No. [lower-alpha 2] | Name | In service [30] | Class | Comments |
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– | – | Unknown | 1801–1823 | [31] | |
– | – | Unknown | 1823–1852 | [31] | |
– | – | Unnamed | 1852–1861 | 25-foot Self-righting (P&S) | This was the first self-righting lifeboat to serve at Scarborough. [11] [31] [32] |
– | – | Amelia | 1861 | 32-foot Self-righting (P&S) | The Amelia was the first boat used when the RNLI assumed control of Scarborough Lifeboat Station. She was wrecked in the storm of 1861. [33] [34] [32] |
– | – | The Mary | 1861–1872 | 29-foot 5in Self-righting (P&S) | [35] [32] |
– | – | Lady Leigh | 1872–1887 | 35-foot Self-righting (P&S) | A gift from the Freemasons of Warwickshire. [35] [36] [32] |
111 | – | Queensbury | 1887–1895 | 37-foot Self-righting (P&S) | A gift from Herbert Foster of Queensbury in West Yorkshire. [35] [31] |
6 | – | Queensbury (II) | 1895–1901 | 34-foot 4in Self-righting (P&S) | [31] |
344 | – | Edward and Lucille | 1901–1902 | 34-foot Self-righting (P&S) | [31] |
484 | – | Queensbury (III) | 1902–1918 | 35-foot Self-righting (P&S) | [31] [37] |
574 | – | Reserve No.6E | 1918–1924 | 35-foot Self-righting (P&S) | Previously Brothers Brickwood at Brighstone Grange [31] |
683 | – | Herbert Joy | 1924–1931 | 35-foot Self-righting (Single Motor) | This was the first motor boat to serve at Scarborough [31] [11] Donated by Alex Joy and named after his brother who drowned in the bay at Scarborough. [38] |
742 | – | Herbert Joy II | 1931–1951 | 35ft 6in Self-righting motor | [31] [10] |
879 | – | ECJR | 1951–1956 | 35ft 6in Self-righting motor | [31] |
792 | – | Annie, Ronald and Isabella Forrest | 1956–1958 | Liverpool | [31] |
942 | 37-01 | JG Graves of Sheffield | 1958–1978 | Oakley | The prototype Oakley Class lifeboat. [31] |
979 | 37-12 | Amelia II | 1978–1991 | Oakley | [31] [39] |
977 | 37-10 | Charles Fred Grantham | 1990–1991 | Oakley | (Relief fleet) |
1175 | 12-18 | Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs | 1991–2016 | Mersey | Sold to the Chilean rescue service in 2018 and works out of Valparaíso, 75 miles (121 km) to the north west of the capital, Santiago. [40] |
1322 | 13-15 | Frederick William Plaxton | 2016– | Shannon | Officially unveiled by the Duke of Kent in April 2017 [41] [42] |
Op. No. [lower-alpha 2] | Name | In service [30] | Class | Comments |
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D-68 | Unnamed | 1965 | D-class (Dunlop) | |
D-85 | Unnamed | 1966–1967 | D-class (RFD PB16) | |
D-20 | Unnamed | 1967 | D-class (RFD PB16) | |
D-40 | Unnamed | 1968–1969 | D-class (RFD PB16) | |
D-183 | The Young People of Scarborough | 1970–1984 | D-class (RFD PB16) | |
D-304 | Unnamed | 1984–1992 | D-class (RFD PB16) | |
D-434 | John Wesley Hillard | 1992–2001 | D-class (EA16) | |
D-560 | John Wesley Hillard II | 2001–2009 | D-class (EA16) | |
D-724 | John Wesley Hillard III | 2009–2021 | D-class (IB1) | [43] |
D-856 | John Wesley Hillard IV | 2021– | D-class (IB1) | [44] [45] |
Op. No. [lower-alpha 2] | Reg. No. | Type | In service [30] | Comments |
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T5 | IJ 3424 | Clayton | 1947–1950 | |
T25 | UW 3881 | FWD Ltd | 1949–1955 | |
T42 | JXR 933 | Case LA | 1955–1958 | |
T64 | PXF 575 | Fowler Challenger III | 1958–1967 | |
T62 | PLA 698 | Fowler Challenger III | 1967–1976 | |
T61 | PLA 561 | Fowler Challenger III | 1976–1984 | |
T63 | PXF 163 | Fowler Challenger III | 1984–1988 | |
T106 | F760 BUJ | Talus MB-H Crawler | 1988–2001 | |
T103 | E589 WAW | Talus MB-H Crawler | 2001–2015 | |
SC-T10 | HF65 HPJ | SLARS (Clayton) | 2016– | The Cairns |
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