[1] A lifeboat was first placed at Newburgh in 1828 by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), but the station closed in 1841.

[4] In 1828, a lifeboat station was established at Newburgh by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), later to become the RNLI in 1854.

The expense of the lifeboat, its carriage, and all equipment, was provided from the legacy of the late Miss M. A. Birtwhistle of Cheltenham.

[3][8] Whilst setting up a Haul-off warp prior to exercise on 3 November 1899, in a strong south-west gale, the lifeboat Ellen Newman and John Bentley (ON 255) was swamped, and three crew were washed overboard.

[9] In what today we would term as a multi-agency rescue, the rescue of seven of the nine crew of the fishing trawler Imperial Prince of Aberdeen on 19 October 1923, in extremely difficult conditions, would involve the lifeboats of Newburgh, which was pulled 7 miles (11 km) overland, Aberdeen and Peterhead, along with the Coastguard Rocket Brigade, and 11 naval crew from HMS Vampire and HMS Vendetta.

The Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners lifeboat capsized, and four crew were washed overboard, fortunately, but with some difficulty, all regaining the boat.

[10] At 04:20 on 26 January 1942, the John Ryburn (ON 837) lifeboat crew were called, after reports of flares from a vessel in distress to the north, but it was soon confirmed that a ship was ashore at Cruden Bay, and that the coastguard rocket-brigade were on scene.