[1] The Norfolk Association for Saving the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners (NASLSM) placed a lifeboat at Blakeney in 1824, but no service records are available, and the station was closed in 1843.

[3] At a meeting of the RNLI committee of management on Thursday 7 November 1861, it was ordered that a that a life-boat station be formed at Blakeney, on the Norfolk coast.

The Brightwell was withdrawn from service in 1873, returned to London free of charge by the Great Eastern railway company, but was subsequently broken up.

[2] The Brightwell was replaced with the Hettie, a 37-foot x 9-foot 6in lifeboat, funded by a gift from a gentleman from Bradford, who also promised to support the expenses every year.

Other than a one line entry, very little detail is available in the RNLI journal 'The Lifeboat', maybe due to wartime reporting, but a wooden plaque now in Blakeney church, records the crew who, in frosty and snowing conditions in a north-west gale, rescued 16 men from the steamship General Havelock of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 7 January 1918, and 14 men from the H.M. Tug Joffre on 8 January 1918.

[22] At a meeting of the RNLI committee of management on Thursday 14 March 1935, it was decided to close the lifeboat stations at Brancaster and Blakeney.

By this time, motor-powered lifeboat were already located at Skegness and Cromer, and new ones were due at the flanking stations of Wells-next-the-Sea and Sheringham in 1936.