[1] When the schooner Margaret was driven ashore at Spittal on 8 April 1838, the Berwick lifeboat was launched into heavy seas.

[1] The Berwick lifeboat would save 5 men from the schooner Epimachus on 18 December 1861, on passage from South Shields to Fisherrow when she was damaged in a collision with a brig.

It was decided to relocate the lifeboat to the north bank of the River Tweed, on the Berwick town side, where a crew could always be found.

[1] The barque Jacob Rauers of Gothenburg, on passage to Grangemouth with timber, was wrecked in Marshall Meadows Bay on 29 March 1913.

Getting within 60 feet (18 m) of the Jacob Rauers, a line was thrown across, and one by one, 11 men were hauled through the surf to the lifeboat, landing them at Berwick at 2:00am.

A new boathouse and slipway needed to be constructed, with the most suitable site being back across the river again, on the south side at Spittal.

The Berwick station was closed while the 1928 boathouse was dismantled, and reconstructed just up river at Tweedmouth, on top of concrete pilings, with a deep-water slipway.

This decision was reversed some 17 years later in 1993, with the arrival of the 12 m (39 ft) Mersey-class lifeboat 12-32 Joy and Charles Beeby (ON 1191), named by HRH The Duchess of Kent in a ceremony at Carr Rock Pier.

Modifications to the boathouse were required, and the Elizabeth Bestwick (B-541), adapted to be permanently afloat, was placed on service temporarily.

Olsen (B-913) was placed at Berwick in 2021, with the Mersey-class 12-32 Joy and Charles Beeby finally departing for the Relief fleet on the 15 April 2023.