Last Updated 12/05/2008 - The brigade has responded to 38 IRT Callouts and 3 BRT Callouts so far this year
The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade is a voluntary shore based coastal rescue service founded in 1864. We are a Declared Facility to HM Coastguard for Cliff Rescue, Coastal Search and Rescue and one of the last remaining trained teams for Ship to Shore Breeches Buoy Rescue. Operating from our Watchhouse Museum in Tynemouth on the North East coast of England, we work closely with all the emergency services including the local RNLI, (to which we have no affiliation or connection apart from that they are a declared facility like ourselves). In recent years the Brigade has averaged over 100 callouts a year and these range from monitoring and gathering information on broken down boats to recovering cliff casualties from our coastline.
The Watchhouse Museum displays artefacts, pictures and relics from old shipwrecks chronicling the history of lifesaving on our coastline since 1864. Click on the link above for more information and opening times.
Date of Last Callout : 11th May 2008 - IRT- 15.45hrs - Boat Lost In The Fog - North Sea
The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade. Registered Charity Number 1093237
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