In 1911, the RNLI provided a new lifeboat in response to the mounting number of shipwrecks on the east coast.

This needed to be somewhere that a lifeboat could be launched and recovered no matter the weather or tide state and the new location of Teesmouth fitted the bill perfectly.

[8] After the closure notice came, Redcar and Cleveland Council petitioned the RNLI to keep the station open for another year after an offer of free moorings came from a local port operator.

[9] One of the key arguments about the Teesmouth Lifeboat, was that it could always launch whatever the weather (its slipway being located in 46 feet (14 m) of water and upstream of the mouth of the River Tees).

[8] At the end of April 2006, the lifeboat Phil Mead, left Teesmouth to join the RNLI's reserve fleet at Amble.