Edward Frodsham Noel K. Wasey, RN, H.M. Coastguard, the RNLI agreed to place a lifeboat at Fleetwood.

On 22 January 1860, the Fleetwood lifeboat was towed over four miles by a steam-tug to the Ann Mitchell, where after 7 attempts, the sole survivor was rescued.

[4] In 1862, following a gift of £340 from Miss Mary Wasey, a new lifeboat was provided for Fleetwood, a 32-foot 10-oared self-righting boat, built by Forrestt.

Funded by the railway companies, a fourth boathouse and slipway was constructed in 1894, which was large enough to accommodate the 46-foot lifeboat; by now the single remaining boat in Fleetwood, the Child of Hale (II) (ON 75) having been retired in 1892.

This boathouse remained in use for the next 75 years, although the station was closed between 1930 and 1933 for alterations, and the construction of another new slipway, ready for the arrival of a new motor-powered lifeboat, the Sir Fitzroy Clayton (ON 628).

[3] A small boathouse, constructed in the late 1960s to house a D-class Inshore lifeboat, was washed away in a storm of November 1977, and completely destroyed.

[3] Finally, a new RNLI and Coastguard building was constructed in 2006, complete with crew facilities, a retail outlet, and secure storage for the D-class lifeboat, which is launched with the aid of a davit.