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Runswick Bay is a small seaside village situated approximately 10 miles north of Whitby in North Yorkshire. The village has long been popular with holiday-makers and, during the summer months, has a thriving boating community. The local Boat Club has over 70 members operating a variety of craft up to 20 feet in length comprising traditional fishing boats, speed boats and dinghies. During holidays and weekends this fleet is joined by an array of visiting craft from ski-boats to sailboards to inflatable airbeds. |
| Runswick Bay has a long Lifeboat history dating back over 100 years. In 1978 the
policy of modernisation in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution led to fewer, faster boats. A
fast Waveney lifeboat stationed at Whitby with an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat 5 miles up the coast
at Staithes led to Runswick station being closed. The loss of the lifeboat, while grounded on sound principles, left many people feeling there remained a need for an immediately responsive facility within the village. The number of potential rescue situations, which were invariably “nipped in the bud” by village boatmen, often at some risk to themselves and their boats, reinforced this view. |
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