[2] At the request of the Tees Bay Lifeboat Society, the management of their three stations, Redcar, Saltburn and Middlesbrough, was transferred to the RNLI in 1858.

John Ward, RNLI Inspector of Lifeboats, who requested alterations to the Middlesbrough boat.

The lifeboat managed to rescue four of the five crew, one man having been washed overboard when the vessel struck the sand.

The vessel had been on passage from Santander, Spain to Middlesbrough when she was wrecked on the North Gare sands.

The lifeboatmen had to battle heavy seas in a severe southerly gale to reach the vessel, finally managing to rescue the six crew.

The North Wharf was re-developed, and a map of the area produced in 1913 shows no trace of the lifeboat house.