Filey Lifeboat Station

This site has been created to keep you informed of the services carried out by and news and events surrounding the Lifeboat crew at Filey.

The lifeboat is operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, who rely solely on voluntary contributions to run the service. The service is absolutely free, no charge is ever made to the person or persons assisted.

Please remember also that the crews who crew these boats are volunteers and give up their time to train and assist people when called upon, who get into difficulty in the many varied situations that you will read about in the pages to follow, some with happy endings, some not so good, but of one thing you can be sure as with all lifeboat crews around our country, we will always assist in any way we can anytime of day or night!

Filey Lifeboat Station is situated in one of the East Yorkshire coasts most picturesque bays, bordered to the South by Flamborough Head and to the North by Filey Brig, a spit of rock that juts a mile out into the sea, at the end of the brig is a very unpredictable tide race that can make the sea very rough, even on the finest of summer days, having 5 miles of slowly sloping beach of smooth hard sand makes the bay a magnet for sailors, fisherman and all other varieties of waterborne activities

Filey is surrounded by a number of very large caravan parks at Primrose Valley, Reighton and to the north of Filey at Gristhorpe and Lebberston.

In the summer months this brings thousands more people into the area and as you will see when you visit our Service boards page the variety of places we are called to, to assist people in difficulty.

The Lifeboat station at Filey is situated on the Southern end of the Coble Landing, at Filey we have two lifeboats the ALB (All Weather Lifeboat) RNLB "Keep Fit Association" and the D-Class or ILB (Inshore Lifeboat) "Rotary District 1120".

The Alb is a carriage launched Mersey class lifeboat made of Fibre Reinforced Composite. The Mersey, designed, developed and built specifically for the RNLI primarily as a fast carriage launched boat but it can also lie afloat or be launched down a slipway. Here at Filey it is launched by means of a specially built waterproof tractor towing it across the beach and launching it from its carriage. The ALB at Filey can be launched at all states of the tide and as it is an all weather lifeboat in any weather.

The ILB is towed to its launch site but this time by means of a quad bike, the ILB can also launch at any state of the tide but is governed by the sea state, wind direction and strength as to whether it can be safely launched or not.

ALB RNLB "Keep Fit Association" 12-13
	Length 12metres Beam 4 metres Displacement 14 tons Speed 17 knots Range 140 miles Crew 6/7

ILB D-Class "Rotary District 1120"
	Length 4.95 metres Beam 2 metres Displacement 745 lbs Speed 20 knots Range 60 miles Crew 3

Latest Alb Service	Latest ILB Service
Monday 5th May	Tuesday 22nd April

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