[1] In 1870, the RNLI established a lifeboat station at Kildonan on the Isle of Arran, which served for 31 years, until its closure in 1901.

For further information, please see In 1964, in response to an increasing amount of water-based leisure activity, the RNLI placed 25 small fast Inshore lifeboats around the country.

The boat, which had been adrift for 5 hours after the engine ignition key had broken, was taken under tow to Lamlash, and the 5 occupants brought ashore, with one man taken to hospital with hypothermia.

[4] A boathouse was constructed in 1985, and a larger twin-engined C-class (Zodiac Grand Raid IV) lifeboat (C-506) was placed on service temporarily on 24 September 1987.

New crew facilities were provided, with a training room, and workshop, with increased boathouse space to house a launch vehicle, and the new B-class (Atlantic 21) lifeboat, which arrived on station the following year.

[7] Funded by the bequest of the late Miss Rachel Antoinette Hedderwick of East Saltoun, granddaughter of Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn, a new B-class (Atlantic 85) was placed on service at Lamlash on 7 July 2014.