North Berwick Lifeboat Station
| North Berwick Lifeboat Station | |
| RNLI Lifeboat station | |
 North Berwick Lifeboat Station
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| Country | Scotland, UK |
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| State | East Lothian |
| Town | North Berwick |
| Location | Victoria Road, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, UK |
| - coordinates | 56°3′37.08″N 2°43′3.36″W / 56.0603°N 2.7176°W |
| Founded | 1860 |
| Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
| Visitation | Summer Months only |
  North Berwick, East Lothian
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North Berwick Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) marine-rescue facility in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
The RNLI first allotted a lifeboat to North Berwick in 1869, in response to the nearby shipwreck of the schooner Bubona the year before.[1] The station closed in 1925 but was re-established in 1967, when the viewers of the BBC children's television programme Blue Peter funded the purchase of four D class lifeboats—one of which, the Blue Peter III, was assigned to North Berwick.[2] The station is currently equipped with its fourth Blue Peter vessel, the Blue Peter 7, and was chosen to carry out trials of the new IB-1 lifeboat.[1]
In the last 100 years the station's rescue crews have received three RNLI awards for gallantry and three Blue Peter gold badges.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Douglas C. Seaton. "Lifeboat Back on Station". Royal Burgh of North Berwick. http://www.northberwick.org.uk/story_3.html#Lifeboat. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "North Berwick History". RNLI. http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/scotland/stations/northberwicklothian/history. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "Lifeboat Station: North Berwick". RNLI. http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/scotland/stations/northberwicklothian/history. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
