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It was a case of new meeting old when the Redcar lifeboat came across a former RNLI lifeboat more than 40 years its senior while out on a routine training run on Sunday 27 August 2017. The volunteer RNLI crew was at sea familiarising itself with new navigation and communications equipment fitted to the station’s Atlantic 85 class lifeboat during […]
» Read moreThe Redcar RNLI lifeboat station hosted a visit by a relay aimed at bringing emergency services together to raise awareness of mental health and to rid the stigma surrounding it. On Tuesday 8 August 2017 the relay torch was brought to the lifeboat station by Ian Widdas and Phil Spencer of Cleveland Police and was handed into the care […]
» Read moreThe Redcar lifeboat was called to the assistance of a 26-feet fishing boat after it suffered engine failure three miles north east of Redcar. The lifeboat launched at 2.15pm and located the stricken craft soon afterwards. The fishing boat, with one person on board, was towed to safety at the South Gare in the River Tees.
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