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A yacht struck rocks at Redcar after suffering an engine fire, prompting a joint rescue by RNLI lifeboats from Redcar and Hartlepool on Saturday 26 May 2018. The alarm was raised just after 5.15pm by an off-duty Redcar RNLI crew member who saw the yacht sailing close inshore and then strike rocks known as East Scar. The Redcar lifeboat launched […]
» Read moreA red distress flare fired from inland sparked a full-scale sea and shoreline search as darkness fell on Tuesday 15 May 2018. Coastguard Rescue Teams and both Redcar RNLI lifeboats were tasked to search an area of coastline between Marske, near Redcar, and Skinningrove after a police officer reported the sighting of the flare while out on patrol. The line […]
» Read moreThe Redcar RNLI lifeboat was called just after 7am on the Mayday bank holiday Monday to go to the assistance of a 6-metre fishing boat which had broken down about 1.5 miles north east of Saltburn. A tow was rigged and the disabled craft brought back to the beach near the Ship Inn, Saltburn , where a coastguard rescue team […]
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