Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage c.1965
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F106030
More about this scene
For years it was believed that Bamburgh in Northumberland was the world's first lifeboat station when a converted coble was placed there in 1786. In the 1970s evidence was unearthed that as early as March 1777 the authorities in Liverpool had given orders for repairs to 'the boat, which was formerly ordered to be built and kept at Formby in readiness to fetch any shipwrecked persons from the banks'. However, the sands gradually began to engulf the station, and it was closed down in 1919.
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