Newhaven Lifeboat Station is an
RNLI
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station located in the town of
Newhaven in the
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of
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in the
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[ OS Explorer map 122: Brighton and Hove. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. ] The station currently operates as all-weather lifeboat station. The original station was established in 1803 and taken over by the RNLI in 1854.
[For Those In Peril – The Lifeboat Service of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Station by Station. Author: Leach, Nicholas. Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd, First Issue 1999. Work:Part 2, South Coast of England – Eastbourne to Weston-super-Mare, Page 71, Newhaven Lifeboat Station. ] The current lifeboat (2014) is the
Severn class ''
David and Elizabeth Acland (ON 1243)''.
Location
Newhaven lifeboat station is situated on the west bank of the
River Ouse within the
Port of Newhaven
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which is one of only two navigable harbours between the
Isle of Wight
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to the west and
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to the east. The Port of Newhaven
[Heroes All! – The story of the RNLI. Author: Beilby, Alec. Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd, First edition, 1992. Work; Chapter 17, Page 170, description of the Station. ISBN 9 781852604196] is a busy commercial port and a ferry terminal.
[Ports of the World – 1979. Editor: Reithmuller, John. Publisher: Derek H. Deere. Thirty Second Edition. Work: Page 109, The Port of Newhaven. ] The harbour opens out on to the
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, one of the busiest stretches of waterway in the world.
History
Newhaven’s first lifeboat was established in 1803
[ when a lifeboat which had been built to a design by Henry Greathead,][ the pioneering rescue lifeboat builder from South Shields, was placed on station in the town. The lifeboat was funded partly by a donation from ]Lloyd's of London
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, and the rest from locally raised donations.[Riders of the Storm – The story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Author: Cameron, Ian. Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First Edition, 2002. Work: Chapter 1, Beyond all human aid. Page 19. reference to the Greathead lifeboat and its utilization. ] but in small and open harbours like Newhaven, the Greathead-class were not popular because of their weight and the large number of crew needed to man the boat.[ Evidently this was the case at Newhaven and the lifeboat was not liked or trusted by the local volunteer lifeboat crew, and it was never launched to a service.][ In 1809 the Greathead-class was taken from the station and sent to Brighton.][
In 1825 the forerunner of the RNLI, the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck supplied a lifeboat to the town. There was still no boathouse in the town and so this lifeboat when not in use was stored out in the open under a tarpaulin. This boat was on service at the town until 1829.
In 1852 Newhaven was provided with a lifeboat from the '' Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society''.]
Fleet
Neighbouring Station Locations
See also
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. It i ...
List of RNLI stations
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.
The service was establi ...
References
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Lifeboat stations in East Sussex