Sjustaka rescue station, also known as Ruhnu marine rescue station, on the south-western coast of Ruhnu Island at Sjustaka cape, established in 1876 as an observation point stocked with rescue equipment and containing necessary structures to discover and rescue castaways. There used to be a 12-oar rescue boat at Ruhnu rescue station and the structures included a boathouse and a slip. The rescue station was destroyed in World War II. Only about a 100-meter long road strip with stone paving (width about 5m, in parts stones have sunk apart and there is grass growing on them), the slip, base of the boathouse and the body of the wooden boathouse moved to Ringsu harbour during the Soviet period remain today.

At the end of the 19^th century, there were 30 rescue stations on the Estonian coast and islands equipped with rescue boats with air boxes, some of them also had ice boats and rescue line equipment. None of the old Estonian rescue stations have remained to date in their original form. In 2012, Vilsandi marine rescue station was restored at its original site. In 2013, on the initiative of NPO Ruhnu Kultuuriait (Ruhnu Cultural Granary) restoration of Ruhnu rescue station’s boathouse was started.

Created in 2013