Category: 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 […]

The RNLI lifeboats from Redcar have been called to three emergencies involving toy inflatables between Wednesday 24 July and Thursday 25 July 2019. The first alarm was raised just before 5pm on Wednesday when two children aged 16 and six, were carried out to sea near Saltburn pier. The Redcar lifeboat was launched and was proceeding to the scene when […]

Redcar RNLI volunteers were called to go to the aid of a speedboat which became swamped in surf at Redcar on Tuesday 16 July 2019. The alarm was raised just before 3pm when the boat was hit by waves as it was being brought ashore. The two men with the boat were struggling to get it back onto its trailer […]

A wayward leisure cruiser which broke down in thick fog resulted in four RNLI lifeboats being involved in a search and rescue mission which lasted almost three hours. The two men on board the cruiser called UK Coastguard just before 10pm on Monday 24 June 2019 to say the had engine problems and were drifting in thick fog. Without proper […]

The Redcar RNLI crew is repeating the message ”don’t drink and drown” after lifeboats and coastguards were called when a man worse the wear for drink entered the sea at Redcar. The alarm was raised just before 4pm on Saturday 20 April 2019 when a man walked into the sea close to the Redcar Beacon on Redcar’s esplanade. The RNLI’s […]

The volunteer Redcar RNLI crew were called at 12.45pm on Friday 19 April 2019 after a kayak was seen to capsize near Granville Terrace, Redcar. Shortly after the station’s smaller inshore lifeboat had launched, more information was received to say that the male involved was ashore but was in need of medical attention.   Crew from the lifeboat station trained […]

Two men are in hospital after being rescued from the sea near Redcar by crew from the town’s RNLI lifeboats. The emergency call came at 8.10am on Saturday 12 January 2019 after a person at the South Gare dialled 999 to report a person being washed off the South Gare breakwater near the lighthouse. Both lifeboat from Redcar were launched […]

The volunteer crew of the Redcar RNLI lifeboat were called out in failing light on Thursday 8 November 2018 to rescue a small dog that had fallen from the banks of the River Tees. UK Coastguard requested the launch after the dog’s owner telephoned to say the pet had fallen from a path alongside the Tees, near a local landmark […]

Just before 8.30am on Thursday 25 October 2018, UK Coastguard paged the Redcar RNLI crew to go to the assistance of a broken down fishing boat approximately three miles north of the lifeboat station. Crew members were already at the lifeboat station preparing for an exchange of lifeboats to allow the station’s own inshore lifeboat to go for refit. The […]

Two men had a lucky escape when their rigid inflatable boat capsized in surf near the South Gare, Redcar on Friday 28 September 2018. The pair were thrown into the sea and had to swim to the shore for safety. This craft was washed onto rocks close to the lighthouse at the entrance to the River Tees. Both RNLI lifeboats […]