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(Formerly North Sunderland) Established as an RNLI Station on Aug 4th, 1859.

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The Call Out Procedure

Humber Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Bridlington.

All Sea Rescues are co-ordinated by HM Coastguard. Humber Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre covers this area, based at Bridlington.

In an emergency, the Coastguard will request the lifeboat's service, by informing the Honorary Secretary now known as the Station Operations Manager or the duty Deputy Launching Authority by Radio Pager. 
The Crew are also alerted by Radio Pagers, and respond within minutes of the alarm being raised. Two maroons were fired (exploding flares) as a signal to the local community and local shipping that the lifeboat is being called "on service". However, this practice has now ceased, except for exceptional circumstances. The dedicated paging system is provided by NTL. This is connected to the RNLI Website, www.lifeboats.org and the "Out on a Shout" page shows which stations by region, are on service at any one time. (Flashing red icon - Launched within the hour, steady red icon - launched within 24 hours) The Seahouses Lifeboat can be at sea with 5 to 8 minutes of being called out, low tides can take a little longer.

The first five or six crew to respond usually man the boat, whilst others assist in launching. Eighteen crew are on call, although they are seldom all available at any one time. Several work away from the village, and those who are fisherman, may often be unavailable at sea. The lifeboat remains in direct radio contact with the coastguard, as well as other shipping and the RAF rescue helicopter and aircraft if deployed. Local Auxiliary shore based Coastguards are also usually alerted (also by pagers), in the event of an incident, as considered necessary by the coastguard.

Ops Room Console at Humber MRSC

The NTL Boathouse Paging Unit. In addition to transmitting the Pager signal from the boathouse aerial, it also connects to marine aerials at Berwick to the north, and to the Newton Point in the south. The unit can set off remotely by telephone and PIN number, or remotely by HM Coastguard. Page messages can be to all or selected pagers (non-urgent). At Seahouses, the entire crew is paged for a call-out, regardless of which boats may be needed. those not required, assist with launching and recovery. Some services may take only minutes, others many hours. Many occur in warm and sunny weather, with a calm sea. They can also happen in foul weather, at any hour of the day or night. No charges are ever made to those helped or rescued.

Some services may take only minutes, others many hours. Many occur in warm and sunny weather, with a calm sea. They can also happen in foul weather, at any hour of the day or night.

No charges are ever made to those helped or rescued.

The RNLI costs the taxpayer nothing, to provide the UK and Eire with a Marine Rescue Service, as required by International Law, for countries with a coastline.

Your generosity and donations will help ensure that this service is always ready to answer the call for help, whether day or night, winter or summer !

Click here to see - Having launched the boat - How we get it back, all 13 tonnes of it !

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