Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat Station | ||
RNLI Lifeboat station | ||
Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat Station
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Country | England | |
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County | West Sussex | |
Region | South East England | |
Non-metropolitan district | Adur | |
Town | Shoreham-by-Sea | |
Location | Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 6RN | |
- coordinates | 50°49′49.1″N 0°14′56.6″W / 50.830306°N 0.249056°WCoordinates: 50°49′49.1″N 0°14′56.6″W / 50.830306°N 0.249056°W | |
Style | Super-structure of timber framed engineered Glued-laminated Beams |
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Material | Concrete, brick, block and Steel | |
Founded | 1865 re-established in 1929 |
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Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | |
Visitation | Classed as an Explore station with free access. Parking, disabled parking, disabled access. (All year round,) |
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Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in the English county of West Sussex in the United Kingdom. It underwent extensive re-development in 2010 with a new purpose built boathall to accommodate its new Tamar-class all-weather lifeboat. It operates two lifeboats. The AWB lifeboat is called RNLB Enid Collett (ON 1295) and the Inshore lifeboat is a D-class (IB1) called RNLB Barry Lazell (D-647).
Before the establishment of a lifeboat service in Shoreham, rescues from the sea had already been noted. On 13 January 1843 a Chief Boatman, Abraham Young of H.M. coastguard from Fishergate, Shoreham, had rescued five crew of the smack Prince Rupert which had been on passage from London to Portsmouth. The smack had become stranded at Copperas Gap, near Shoreham during very severe weather. Young had secured himself to a line thrown from the smack and hauled himself aboard where he then helped the men to land safely ashore. For his bravery he was awarded a silver medal.
In 1845 the Shoreham Harbour Commissioners decided to provide funds to open a lifeboat service for the town. This first lifeboat was a self-righting pulling lifeboat and was 30 feet (9.1 m) in length. In 1870 the Harbour Board funded the installation of a slipway.
In 1865 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution took over the lifeboat cover for Shoreham Harbour. They established a station with a boathouse constructed on Kingston beach. This boathouse was used until 1892 when a new timber framed boathouse was built near the coastguard station on Shoreham beach on the western side of the Harbour. The old station building at Kingston beach was demolished.
In 1903 the boathouse was moved further from the shore and was in use until 1924. In October of that year the station had to be closed due to the silting up of the harbour entrance, which had made operations hazardous and then impossible. The station did not re-open until October 1929 after work had been carried out to remove the sandbar across the harbour entrance.