Month: December 2019

Rescue - Sunday 22 December 2019

Rescues

Both Redcar RNLI lifeboats were launched at just after 5.30pm on Sunday 22 December 2019 to help other emergency services search for a missing person in the Saltburn area. The lifeboats searched close inshore using the recently donated thermal imaging equipment to identify possible targets on the beach and in the sea. The missing person was found safe ashore by […]

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A century of service at Redcar RNLI

News

Two volunteers at Redcar have clocked up one hundred years of RNLI service between them. Tony Jamieson and Bob O’Neill both began volunteering for the RNLI in 1969. Tony joined the Teesmouth lifeboat station as a crew member before becoming second mechanic. He was part of the lifeboat crew involved in the fateful grounding in 1993 of the giant tanker […]

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