[11] The RNLI closed the station in August 1988 as fast lifeboats at Padstow and Appledore could cover the area around Clovelly.

[1] The Clovelly Trust provided an inshore lifeboat (ILB) in 1990 and this was operated by them from the RNLI's old boathouse until 1997.

[4] In the same year a tragedy occurred when Helmsman Jonny Staines went missing; his body was found at Hartland Quay.

[12] During a gale on 16 August 1903 the lifeboat launched to two vessels in distress, the schooner Mary Stewart and the yacht Gadfly and rescued both their crews, eight people in all.

[15] In 1962 the lifeboat rescued the seven-man crew from the 3,000 tonne tanker Green Ranger when she was wrecked off Hartland after a towing cable parted.

[3] Coxswain Richard Headon was awarded the Silver Medal of the RNLI in 1882 for his service with the Clovelly Lifeboat Station.

[9] In 1950 the station launched a new motor lifeboat William Cantrell Ashley, a 35-foot, twin 18 horsepower self-righting vessel, equipped with a radio and under the command of Coxswain George Lamey.