Category Archives: Service Calls

Cullercoats Lifeboat along with Tynemouth Lifeboat were paged to launched immediately following a MAYDAY call the Coastguard had heard on VHF CH 16. Tynemouth VLB were also requested to attend as eyes on the shore. All three search & Rescue units searched the area from St Mary’s Lighthouse down to South Shields. The two lifeboats [...]

The lifeboat launched to reports from the coastguard of a small inflatable dingy in difficulty just of King Edwards Bay, Tynemouth. The lifeboat quickly reached the dingy and found two persons paddling the dingy into the beach. The lifeboat crew checked the two were ok then escorted the dingy in to the beach where the [...]

Sound of Music cast members rescued during afternoon walk. Two cast members appearing at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle had to be rescued on Monday 26th September 2011 by Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat ‘Hylton Burdon’. The two cast from the Sound of Music, playing at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle were enjoying an afternoon walk along the sea [...]

Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat 811 Hylton Burdon launched after a member of the public dialled 999 and reported seeing a man swimming out to sea from the harbour at Cullercoats. The swimmer had gone out of sight at 13:30 and had not returned to the harbour. The lifeboat headed out of the harbour and searched to [...]

A man climbed down a 70ft cliff in an attempt to rescue his dog on Saturday 27th August he then became stranded by the rising tide. Crowds on the beach watched as both Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat crew and members of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade raced from the event on the beach to the assistance [...]

Humber Coastguard requested the launch of the Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat Hylton Burdon at 7:13am this morning along with both RNLI lifeboats from Tynemouth, a 25 year old male who was in the back of an ambulance in Tynemouth being treated by paramedics reported his two friends were missing and possibly in the sea at Tynemouth [...]

Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat Hylton Burdon launched to the assistance of the motor cruiser “Petty Longo” which had a fouled propeller. The vessel was half a mile off shore in the area of Whitley bay. The crew quickly located the vessel, placed a crew member on the “Petty Longo” and a tow was established.

Cullercoats RNLI Lifeboat B811 Hilton Burdon was requested to launch by Humber Coastguard at 4:33pm to rescue a mother and her two young children aged three and five who had become trapped by the rising tide on the island. The family were facing a wait of over three hours before they would be able to [...]

Cullercoats Lifeboat was paged to standby just off shore North of Cullercoats bay where police and RNLI Lifeguards were talking to a man who was threatening to commit suicide. The man was talked down and taken away by police, the lifeboat was then stood down. B811 “Hylton Burdon” was re-housed and ready for service at [...]