Accreditation Cleveland Standard 18//01/1936 REDCAR – OLDEST LIFEBOAT-HOUSE    Negotiations have been started for the probable acquisition by the Redcar Corporation of the old lifeboat-house judging by the minutes of the Finance Committee regarding their meeting on December 30th, 1935. The Town...

Accreditation The Standard The Independent Newsagent Saturday, JULY 1st 1933 The Life-Boat Service    The report of the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 1932 has been issued. The number of lives recovered from shipwrecks was 395. This was more than  in 1931, and the largest number for the...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 11/12/1933. Lifeboat Museum – The Beginning Zetland Museum, Promenade, Redcar.    I see that according to the minutes of the Finance Committee the solicitors of the executors of the owner of the lease of the old lifeboat-house have approached Redcar Corporation...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 20/03/1937 THE ZETLAND LIFEBOAT A Talk by Dr. Robinson    Dr. A.S. Robinson, chairman of the local branch of the National Lifeboat Institution gave a most interesting lecture on “The Zetland Lifeboat,” the boat that has saved over 500 lives, in the Albion...

“ZETLAND” Redcar’s Jewel in the Crown The “Zetland” lifeboat, and how it has become a visitor attraction along the Esplanade at Redcar. Many thanks go to the Zetland Museum for the assistance in putting this page together, and in particular F. Brunskill. (2010) It was the...

 THE ZETLAND LIFEBOAT    The Zetland Lifeboat is the oldest preserved lifeboat in the world, and plays a great part of Redcar’s’ history.      Zetland was built at South Shields in the early 1800’s by Henry Greathead. As a result of being bought by fishermen at Redcar for £100,...

  Lifeboats at Redcar Zetland                                     1802  – 1864 United Free Gardeners               1877 – 1898 Known locally as the         ‘Emma’   Sir James Knottwas the last of the traditional lifeboats...