On its first service to a number of Cullercoats fishing boats, caught in a sudden storm off St Mary's island in 1810, the lifeboat was wrecked.

[2] The Port of Newcastle Shipwreck Association would fund a new Blyth lifeboat in 1826, which was managed and operated by the recently formed RNIPLS.

Crewman Henry Kinch, a very strong swimmer, and one of only two survivors, was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal for his efforts to save the crew.

The No.1 boathouse was renovated and lengthened, and the 20–year old lifeboat was replaced with a new 33-foot Self-righting boat, built by Woolfe of Shadwell, costing £283.

Coxswain John Tinning jumped back into the sea, and managed to pull Fairhurst ashore, but he didn't survive.

Cambois Coxswain John Bushell and Acting Bowman G. Summerside would be awarded gallantry medals from the King of Norway, for their service to the barque Haabet of Svelvik on 12 November 1901.

[2] In 1921, for the station's first motor lifeboat, the RNLI built a new boathouse and roller-slipway which, with modifications over the years, is still in use for the D-class inflatable today.

The various motor lifeboats over the years were slipway launched until October 1982 when a Waveney-class fast afloat boat was allocated to the station.

Inevitably, decisions to close or downgrade stations often lead to local concerns and following the RNLI's decision, the Blyth Volunteer Lifeboat Service was set up and purchased a 38-foot-6-inch Lochin lifeboat which had been built in 1990 for the Caister Volunteer Rescue Service (a body similarly set up after withdrawal of an RNLI all-weather boat).

[7] The crew activated their Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon and fired a distress flare and were safely recovered.