Lifeboat Station

About Lifeboat Station

Tragically the lifeboat could not be launched on Black Friday as its crew were fishermen and so were already at sea. A Lifeboat house and slipway were constructed in 1876 but were replaced by a new station 1908. These became obsolete with the harbour improvements in the 1960s and were removed as part of the most recent harbour upgrading. Since 1964 a modern lifeboat has been moored in the harbour ready to sail at a moment’s notice the crew being summoned by one two or three rockets depending on the seriousness of the situation facing them. The new station was completed in 1992