A lifeboat station was originally established in Pachena Bay in the early 1900s in an effort to reduce the lives lost on the ‘Graveyard of the Pacific.’ The lifeboat station was eventually moved to Bamfield  Inlet in 1908 and was used by the Bamfield Creek Lifeboat Assistance Crew for two years before it was wrecked and rebuilt in 1909.

Since its retirement in 1969, the Bamfield Lifeboat has been displayed at the Maritime Heritage Centre in Port Alberni. Cape McKay lifeboat took its place and resided at the Bamfield Coast Guard Station. Cape McKay is one of 36 cape-class lifeboats of the Canadian Coast Guard fleet.

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