Category: Rescues

Volunteers from Redcar RNLI took part in the difficult rescue of a man who had sustained multiple injuries after he fell onto rocks at the South Gare, near Redcar, on Saturday 21 July 2018. RNLI crew trained in advanced casualty care techniques traveled by vehicle to the location to assist NEAS paramedics, UK Coastguard rescue teams and the NEAS HART […]

Late on Thursday 28 June the RNLI lifeboats from Redcar were called to assist ambulance and coastguard teams who were searching in the area of Saltburn for a vulnerable woman. On arrival at the base of Huntcliff, three RNLI crew members were put ashore to search along a stretch of cliff face from near Skinningrove to Saltburn. Nothing was found […]

A call to the RNLI to assist a kayaker in difficulties off Redcar took a serious turn for the worse when the ordeal aggravated a pre-existing medical condition. The initial call to Redcar RNLI was after reports of a kayaker who had capsized and was experiencing difficulties returning to shore in Coatham bay. Redcar RNLI’s Atlantic 85 class lifeboat launched […]

A 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 […]

The 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 […]

A chain of failed rescue attempts by members of the public led to four people being caught in heavy seas off a slipway at Redcar on Friday 30 March 2018. A man fell from the slipway at the lifeboat station just after 4pm, causing him to be battered by large waves, close to the slipway and the sea wall. A […]

Volunteers from the Redcar RNLI lifeboat station responded to a call for help from the UK Coastguard when a man sustained leg and other injuries after falling from steps leading onto the beach at Redcar on Sunday 17 February 2018. After a brief search of the beach the man, a 71-year-old visiting from out of the area, was found approximately […]

A Redcar RNLI lifeboat was scrambled on Monday 4 December 2017 when a person was reported to be in difficulties in surf, only for the crew to find that a discarded pair of fisherman’s waders was the cause of the alarm.  The crew was tasked at 2.30pm after a lookout in the Coastwatch station on the sea front Redcar saw […]

The 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.