Whitstable Lifeboat Station

Whitstable Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station located in Whitstable in the English county of Kent.[1]

Whitstable Lifeboat Station
Whitstable Lifeboat Station.
General information
TypeRNLI Lifeboat Station
LocationWhitstable Lifeboat Station, The Harbour, Whitstable, CT5 1AB.
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°21′45″N 1°1′32″E
Opened1963
OwnerRoyal National Lifeboat Institution
Technical details
MaterialFabricated steelwork clad
with timber, and concrete
Website
Whitstable Lifeboat Station

The station was established in 1963,[2] and has always operated an inflatable inshore lifeboat. The current lifeboat is a B-class (Atlantic 85) named Lewisco (B-877) which has been on the station since 2014.[3] Boathouse accommodation has been improved over the years, with a single storey extension added to the side to improve crew facilities in 1989, and a new boathouse completed in 2000.[4]

A number of awards have been made to Whitstable crew. These include, between 1977 and 2010, one RNLI bronze medal and four "Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum" for bravery during rescues. The station also received the RNLI’s "Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Annual Award" for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009.[4] In the 2003 New Year Honours David Andrew Lamberton, the station's honorary secretary, was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the RNLI.[5]

The annual "Dan Davies Competition" is held in the memory of Whitstable general practitioner Dan Davies,[6] who served as medical officer to the lifeboat station.[7]

Fleet
Dates in service Class Op No Name
1963–1965 D-class (RFD PB16) D-2 unnamed
1965 D-class (RFD PB16) D-24 unnamed
1965 D-class (RFD PB16) D-28 unnamed
1965–1968 D-class (RFD PB16) D-45 unnamed
1968–1969 D-class (RFD PB16) D-49 unnamed
1969–1970 D-class (RFD PB16) D-45 unnamed
1970–1974 D-class (RFD PB16) D-182 unnamed
1974–1984 Atlantic 21-class B-516 unnamed
1984–2000 Atlantic 21-class B-560 British Diver
2000–2014 Atlantic 75-class B-764 Oxford Town & Gown
2014–present Atlantic 85-class B-877 Lewisco
  • Whitstable Lifeboat Station
  • Oxford Town and Gown Atlantic 75-class lifeboat
  • Oxford Town and Gown Atlantic 75-class lifeboat, just after launch
  • Oxford Town and Gown inside Whitstable boathouse
  • Oxford Town and Gown on her launch cradel inside Whitstable boathouse

References
  1. OS Explorer Map 150 – Canterbury & the Isle of Thanet.Published: Ordnance Survey – Southampton. ISBN 978 0 319 2351 88.
  2. "RNLI Lifeboats". Whitstable Lifeboat Station – Home page. RNLI - Copyright 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  3. "B-Class Atlantic 75 production list". List of the Atlantic 75 lifeboats – Operation No. and place and date of service. Lifeboat World online - Copyright 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. RNLI. "Whitstable station history". Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. "No. 56797". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2002. p. 19.
  6. Lifeboat, Whitstable (26 June 2017). "Whitstable lifeboat crews in test of seamanship and first aid skills". Whitstable Lifeboat Station. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  7. "Obituary; D. O. Davies". British Medical Journal. 1 (6070): 1222–1223. 7 May 1977. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 1606865.
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