Main photo {far left) Ref: 639489 Detailed photo (left) ftef 639472 Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, lies beside a harbour set in the estuary of the River Yar and is home to the busy Lymington- Isle of Wight ferry port.

Before Yarmouth station opened in 1924, lifeboats had been operating from the nearby Totland Bay from as far back as 1885, but due to difficulties launching a motor lifeboat there the station had to be relocated.

Currently the station's Arun class lifeboat. Joy and John Wade, lies afloat in the main harbour and the crew get aboard via a small boarding boat. The shore facility (circled on the detail photo) was previously the Customs House which was refurbished in 1994 to include a changing room, souvenir shop, workshop, crew room, galley, shower and toilets..