[2][3] In 1901 the local secretary informed the crew that their services would no longer be required after 20 April; there was concern about their conduct at launchings.

[4] In 1918 the RNLI's lease on the land at the docks was terminated and the lifeboat was moved to moorings in the main harbour.

(the initials of the donors, Blackburn, Armstrong, Smart and Price) which arrived in 1934, had been the first lifeboat at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight and the second of three Watson-class built by J Samuel White of Cowes to be stationed at Falmouth, is now preserved in the RNLI historic lifeboat collection at the Dockyard, Chatham.

[8] Unofficially called 'The Yank' after its American connection, 44-001 is now also preserved in the RNLI historic lifeboat collection at the Dockyard, Chatham.

An experimental 20.5-foot (6.2 m) Hatch Type rigid inshore rescue boat (IRB), 18-01, was temporarily stationed at Falmouth from August to October 1967.

It so impressed the crew at Falmouth that they asked the RNLI to station it there until their own boat was built, and so it was there from January 1997 until December 2001.

[16] The RNLI's lifeboat was on station from 1867 and launched many times but it was other boats that raced to the aid of the Marys when it was wrecked at the harbour entrance on 22 October 1880.

[17] The lifeboat Bob Newbon was launched on the morning of 3 November 1916 after a military tanker, the RFA Ponus, had gone aground on Gyllyngvase beach.

The lifeboat managed to pass a line between the ship and a tug but this was not able to prevent it running aground, which caused a serious injury to a seaman in the engine room.

Their location and poor sea conditions would have made for difficult approach for the large lifeboat but the smaller motorboat managed to get in.

The RNLI crew, Coxswain Bert West, Ronald Twydle and Cyril Barnicot, secured the trawler to a buoy and stood by until it was refloated three hours later.

Four hours later it was called out again to a small boat carrying ten people that had a damaged rudder and was at the mercy of a Force 9 severe gale.

The lifeboat stood by waiting for a tug to arrive, but the boat lost its anchor so more positive action was needed.

The tug eventually arrived and took the boat in tow into Falmouth; the lifeboat returned to its moorings at half past three in the afternoon.

[22] An unexpected storm, gusting up to hurricane force 12, blew up in the Western Approaches on 13 August 1979 during the Fastnet Race while 303 yachts were at sea.

In common with the other stations involved, Falmouth received a special framed certificate from Duke of Atholl, the chairman of the RNLI.

[24] A Force 11 violent storm was blowing in the early hours of on 15 February 1985 in which the French fishing vessel St Simeon was sinking, 28 nmi (52 km) south of Falmouth.

The three lifeboat coxswains, including Vivian Pentecost from Falmouth, all received the 'Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum'.

He was presented with the chairman's 'Framed letter of thanks' for getting four people out of the water into his boat before transferring them to the Falmouth inshore lifeboat.

After giving a yacht a town into port, it went out to aid the tug Dido which was drifting without steering in heavy seas near the Manacles.

Mark Pollard, as coxswain of the all-weather lifeboat, was awarded a bronze medal for saving the MV Galina with its crew of 8 in a storm on 2 November 2005.

His outstanding seamanship was recognised on this occasion by winning the Lady Swathling Trophy of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society.

To do this the Shannon-class lifeboat at Falmouth has an operating range of 250 nautical miles (460 km) and a top speed of 27 knots (50 km/h).