Redcar operates two Inshore Lifeboats (ILB); the B-class (Atlantic 85) Leicester Challenge III (B-858) and the D-class (IB1) Eileen May Loach-Thomas (D-786).

[note 1][3] It was constructed by Henry Greathead, and at the time Redcar was just a small fishing hamlet consisting of two rows of terraced houses.

[5] Under the auspices of the RNLI, it served for six more years before being damaged and scheduled to be broken up.

[12] This building was in turn demolished in the early 1970s after a new lifeboat station was constructed nextdoor.

[13] In 1970, the County Borough of Teesside Council built a new lifeboat station for the RNLI on the seafront at Redcar.