History of the rescue station

At Abelines Gaard there is a rescue station with a boathouse, rocket house and telephone shed. It is the old Haurvig Rescue Station.
The rescue station was established in 1860 as a modest rocket station. It was not until 1882 that an independent building was erected for the rescuers' equipment. In 1887, the station was expanded with a larger building and a newly built lifeboat from the naval dockyard in Copenhagen. In 1933, the station, like the surrounding ones, was closed down when the tasks of the rescue stations were combined in a new station with a motor lifeboat in the new town of Hvide Sande. However, Haurvig, which until 1939 served as a rocket depot for Hvide Sande Rescue Station, was not initially completely abandoned.

Four times a year, the local rescue guild met and tested their skills so that they knew exactly what to do when a stranding occurred. But the activity was never as extensive in Haurvig as it was in many other places on the west coast of Jutland, where in the decades around 1900 the small rescue stations in several places reached several hundred rescued seamen. Haurvig rescued 64 castaways in 15 operations. All of them came ashore using the rocket apparatus - so the lifeboat was never used.
Today there is a replica of a lifeboat in the boathouse.
The telephone shack has been moved from the beach to the rescue station. When the station was still in use, the shed was on the beach so that a sentry could quickly call for help.