Tynemouth Lifeboat Lifeboat Day

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June 23rd, 2007: Lifeboat Day raises over £2000.

Hundreds of people turned out in heavy rain to support our annual lifeboat day at North Shields Fish Quay on Saturday June 23rd, and took part in activities that included listen to live music and a bike show organised by Quay Motorcycle Club.

Highlight of the event was a dramatic sea rescue display which saw a Air Sea Rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in action with both Tynemouth RNLI lifeboats.

Left: Station Mechanic Kevin Mole starts the day off with a bang by firing two maroons.

Right: An RAF crewman winches onto the all weather lifeboat during the air sea rescue display

Coxswain of Tynemouth Lifeboat, Michael Nugent, said: “I’d like to say a really big thank you to everyone who took part in making lifeboat day a big success. We rely on the public and they still turned up in large numbers despite the terrible weather. The hard work that goes into organising the event was made really worthwhile. We raised over £2,000 which Tynemouth RNLI station will use locally to save lives at sea”.




	New crewman Trevor Wakenshaw is winched back onto the lifeboat from “Sea King 131”




		Leading helmsman Paul Henderson gives Derek a good soaking in the stocks.