Sunderland RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards at last year’s air show
Date: 26/07/2011
Author: Paul Nicholson, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Lifeboat volunteers and beach lifeguards from Sunderland RNLI Station will once again join forces with fellow Maritime Rescue Organisations to help ensure that the crowds of people attending this year’s Sunderland International Air Show will be kept safe both at sea and along the City’s coastline.
Date: 26/07/2011
Author: Jim Phillips , Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
On Monday July 25 at 11.15pm, following a distress call from a 10 metre fishing vessel Crystal Kay St David’s RNLI all-weather lifeboat with its volunteer crew of seven launched on service.
Beam trawler Jack Henry (Credit RNLI)
Date: 26/07/2011
Author: Bob Jeffery, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Eastbourne RNLI’s all weather lifeboat went to the assistance of the Shoreham registered beam trawler Jack Henry last evening (25 July) when it began taking on water over three miles off Beachy Head.
At 16.28hr on Monday 25th July 2011, Humber Coastguard requested the launch of the Seahouses All Weather Lifeboat, to assist a windsurfer reported to be in serious distress in Beadnell Bay. The report had come from a member of the public on shore. An RAF Rescue helicopter from RAF Boulmer was also scrambled.
Date: 25/07/2011
Author: Paul Nicholson, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Volunteers from Sunderland RNLI Lifeboat Station were this afternoon involved in a mission to rescue the crew of a large (16m long) concrete hulled yacht (27 ton) which had suffered had suffered engine failure in rough seas off Sunderland while on passage from Hartlepool to Scotland.
RNLB David Robinson underway for the last time from the Lizard
The Changing of the Guard – RNLB Rose (left) symbolically takes over from RNLB David Robinson as a Fleet Air Arm 771 Squadron Sea King from HMS Seahawk (RNAS Culdrose) flies in salute
A Rescue Helicopter from 771 Squadron RNAS Culdrose joins in the tribute to RNLB David Robinson.
A lone sailor onboard the 23 foot yacht ‘Ragamuffin’ had a very lucky escape during the early hours of the morning of Sunday 24 July.
The casualty is carefully transported by RNL:I volunteers from the lifeboat to an awaiting ambulance (Credit RNLI/Bob Warwick)
Date: 23/07/2011
Author: Bob Warwick, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
At 8.08am, RNLI New Brighton lifeboat crew were alerted by HM Coastguard, Liverpool, that a crewman on a yacht located in the Crosby channel was in urgent need of assistance. It was reported that he had received a crush injury to a leg following a collision with the Cardinal Buoy.
An online survey for anyone who has ever been caught in a rip current is being launched today (25 July) by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to help the charity with potentially lifesaving research.
