The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded in the 1820s, and the Coastguards, founded in the same decade, had lifesaving responsibilities added to their remit in the middle of the century.
A number of individual lifeboat stations pre-date the founding of the national institution. The Lowestoft station was set up in 1801 and by 1996 had been credited with saving 1144 lives.
Other sites worth visiting are www.hansonclan.co.uk/coastguards.htm homepage of the coastguards service, and www.rnli.org.uk for the lifeboat service.
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