Station History - continued

The branch continued to have lifeboats at Runswick until 1978 when it was decided to replace the offshore boat by a faster inshore boat at Staithes. These Runswick boats were responsible for numerous life saving services, which proudly upheld the high traditions of the lifeboat service.

In 1978 the Staithes station reopened with the
Lord Brotherton, one of the new generation of lifeboats, an Atlantic 21. This was replaced in 1989 by the Ellis Sinclair, also an Atlantic 21, which was donated by London solicitors Sinclair Roche & Temperley.

The present day lifeboat The Pride of Leicester was donated by the Leicester branch in 2002. This boat is the newer and larger Atlantic 75.

During the last 25 years the Staithes Atlantics have been launched over 325 times on rescue missions. The most noticeable of which was the Bronze medal service awarded to Helmsman Stephan Iredale.

The lifeboat was launched at night in an easterly gale with driving rain to rescue a 70-year-old sailor who was washing ashore in 3-metre swells. Stephen and his crew persisted in treacherous conditions in order to rescue the lone skipper from his trimaran.

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