St Mary's Lifeboat Station is situated in St Mary's Habour, Isles of Scilly

Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part...

 and has been an important station for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways....

 since the service began in 1837, however without service between 1855 and 1874.

Lifeboats at St Mary's

• 1874 to 1919 - RNLB Henry Dundas
• 1919 to 1930 - RNLB Elsie, first motor lifeboat for the Islands
• 1930 to 1953 - RNLB Cunard
• 1955 to 1981 - RNLB Guy and Clare Hunter, Watson Class Lifeboat
• 1981 to 1997 - RNLB Robert Edgar, Arun-class
  Arun class lifeboat
  The Arun class lifeboat is a fast all-weather lifeboat designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for service at its stations around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. They were operated by the RNLI between 1971 and 2008...
  
  
• 1997 to present - RNLB The Whiteheads (17-11), Severn-class
  Severn class lifeboat
  At long, the Severn class lifeboat is the largest lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution . Introduced to service in 1996, the class is named after the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain...
  
  

The current picture is the Sir Max Aitken a relief Arun Class Lifeboat.

Lifeboats at St Agnes

St Agnes, also of the Isles of Scilly has owned two lifeboats: RNLB James and Caroline from 1890 being replaced in 1904 by the RNLB Charlie and Dure James whose service ended in 1920. The service was never resumed on St Agnes, but the remains of the slipways used to launch the boats are still noticeable on the coast.

Awards

St Mary's Lifeboat has received fifty-six awards for gallantry.

The most recent was in 2004 when Bronze Medals were awarded to Coxswain Andrew Howells and Crew Members Mark Bromham and Philip Roberts for the rescue of an injured man from a yacht on 29 October 2003.

External links

• RNLI Lifeboat Stations - St Mary's
• Scilly History - Lifeboats of Scilly
• ex-RNLB "The Guy and Clare Hunter" The former Isles of Scilly Lifeboat