The RNLI Heritage Trust preserves the history of the RNLI by caring for objects and the archives that tell the story of the service since 1824.
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Contact Details
RNLI Heritage Trust,
Royal National Lifeboat Institution,
West Quay Road,
Poole,
Dorset BH15 1HZ.
Telephone
08451 226999
Latest News
Grant for Grace museum
The RNLI Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh, Northumberland, has been given a £10,000 grant from the Low Carbon Building Programme for its ground source heat pump.
The RNLI Grace Darling Museum
Bamburgh, NORTHUMBERLAND
Nearest RNLI station: Seahouses
Commemorates the life of Victorian Britain's greatest heroine and the story of the wreck of the SS Forfarshire in 1838
North region/Northumberland
Read more about The RNLI Grace Darling Museum
Nearest major town: Alnwick/Berwick-upon Tweed
Nearest rail station: Berwick-upon Tweed
The RNLI Henry Blogg Museum - The Rocket House
The Rocket House, Cromer, NORFOLK
Nearest RNLI station: Cromer
Celebrates one of the bravest men who ever lived; the most highly awarded lifeboatman who helped to save 873 lives
East Region/Norfolk
Read more about The RNLI Henry Blogg Museum - The Rocket House
Nearest major town: Norwich
Nearest rail station: Cromer
The RNLI Whitby Museum
Pier Road, Whitby, YORKSHIRE
Nearest RNLI station: Whitby
A classic Victorian double-boathouse home of the 1919 lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson and the dramatic story of lifesaving in Whitby
North region/Yorkshire
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Nearest major town: Whitby
Nearest rail station: Whitby
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection, Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatham, KENT
Nearest RNLI station: Sheerness
The RNLI's national collection of 17 history-making lifeboats from pulling-sailing days to the Arun class
SE Region/Kent
Read more about The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection, Chatham Historic Dockyard
Nearest town: Chatham
Nearest rail station: Chatham
The RNLI Zetland Museum
The Esplanade, Redcar, Cleveland, YORKSHIRE
Nearest RNLI station: Redcar
Home of the Zetland, the world's oldest surviving lifeboat built in 1802
North region/ Redcar and Cleveland
Read more about The RNLI Zetland Museum
Nearest town: Redcar
Nearest rail station: Redcar
RNLI Headquarters: collections and archives
Poole, DORSET
Nearest RNLI station: Poole
Houses RNLI object collections in store, the library and archive. Visits by researchers welcome by appointment.
SW region / Dorset
Read more about RNLI Headquarters: collections and archives
Nearest town: Poole
Nearest rail station: Poole