services and carried on using Friendship for rescues at sea. Launching from Old Cart Gap The launching of the lifeboat from the Old Cart Gap station was not an easy operation and needed a lot of manpower and a team of eight horses, which were supplied from the local farms. Retrieving the lifeboat and hauling it back up through the gap to the boathouse was even more arduous and required ten horses. In 1887 the station was given a replacement lifeboat. The lifeboat was built by T Woolfe and Son at Shadwell on the River Thames, and was also paid for by the people of Huddersfield. The lifeboat was called Huddersfield II (ON-140). This Lifeboat remained on the station until 1907 when she was replaced with one called Jacob and Rachel Vallentine (ON-580). This lifeboat remained in operation at the station until the RNLI closed it in 1926. Re-opening as an inshore service By the mid-1960s this area of the Norfolk coast had seen an increase of pleasure craft and beach leisure activities. The RNLI saw a change in the pattern of casualties with an increasing number of services required to rescue bathers washed out to sea, people on lilos, dinghies, and various small water craft. It was realised locally that a faster first response was needed to attend such situations and to relieve the bigger neighbouring stations of Cromer, Sheringham, Caister and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. In 1965 the Happisburgh Inshore Lifeboat Station was opened. It operated from a small house at the top of the cliff above the gap close to the original boathouse which had been demolished. In 1987 a new inshore lifeboat house was built on the same site. These facilities included a boat hall, crew room, instruction room, drying room, toilets and washing room. In 1998 the facilities were improved and a souvenir shop was added. Coastal erosion problems The ongoing problems of coastal erosion along this part of the Norfolk coastline affected the lifeboat station in 2003. Damage to the cliffs below the station and the washing away of the slipway down to the beach caused the station facilities to be closed at the village location. The operations were moved half a mile south to Cart Gap, where temporary accommodation was set up. It was clear that this move would need to be made permanent. In 2010 a new boat hall and facilities were