J. Dombrain, Dublin Inspector of Coastguard, who highlighted a number of shipwrecks in the area, a lifeboat was first placed at Arklow by the RNIPLS.

Samuel Sparshott, Deputy Inspector General of Coastguard, the boat was relocated to Newcastle, County Down in April 1930, and the station was closed.

The boat was transported from London free of charge by the British and Irish Steam Packet Company, arriving in Arklow of 7 June 1857.

[3][2] On 26 December 1865, the Arundel Venables was launched to the aid of the vessel Tenessarian, on passage from Liverpool to Calcutta, ashore on Blackwater Bank.

However, it would by 1915 before the boat arrived, John Taylor Cardwell (ON 642), a 40-foot Self-righting lifeboat, with a single 40 hp engine, delivering a speed of 7½ knots.

[10] The 42ft Watson-class lifeboat William Taylor of Oldham (ON 907) was launched to the aid of the trawler Jadestar Glory on 16 January 1974, ashore on Roney Rock.