Shoreham Lifeboat Station & Lighthouse
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SHOREHAM RNLI LIFEBOAT STATION
In 2016 Shoreham RNLI Lifeboat Station celebrates 150 years of saving lives at sea.
You can visit the lifeboat station and its state of the art Tamar all weather lifeboat. The boathouse on Kingston Beach consists of a large boat hall, crew training room, proper drying facilities for wet crew kit, changing facilities and a viewing platform for the public.
The old lifeboat station was demolished in January 2009 and work started immediately to build a modern lifeboat station to house the RNLl's new Tamar-class lifeboat and its inshore lifeboat along with two new slipways. The boathouse opened in October 2010 following a three-year community appeal to raise £1million towards the build. The station's £2.7million Tamar lifeboat, named the Enid Collett, after the late donor whose generous legacy funded the boat, arrived in Shoreham on December 10. She had her first operational shout two days later.
LIGHTHOUSE
There has been a harbour at the mouth of the Adur since Roman times. The safe entry to the current harbour is marked by the lighthouse, known as Kingston Buci or Shoreham lighthouse. The building dates from 1842. It was lit initially by oil lamps, but in the 1880s the lighthouse was modernised and the quality and strength of the light improved using new dioptric glass gas lamps. Britain became famous for the manufacture of dioptric glass and exported it around the world during the next hundred years.