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Reports of call outs at Skegness, Mablethorpe and Cleethorpes for 2006
These reports show the nature of the incidents which lead to a callout and the subsequent action. It is the capability for carrying out these activities that we are all working for.
Click here for reports for 2004 and 2005)
Skegness Lifeboat Station
Wednesday February 8th at 8.30pm
SKEGNESS RNLI inshore lifeboat the Leicester Fox II was launched just after 8.30pm on Wednesday following a 999 call from a member of the public. The report was of a missing woman thought to be in danger on Skegness central beach.
Coastguards searched the beach and sea front while the ILB patrolled close in to shore in case she had entered the water. After almost two hours with nothing found Yarmouth Coastguard who co-ordinate rescues called off the search and the crews were stood down.
This was the first service launch for the Skegness ILB this year and one of many spent looking for people who are never found. Last year saw 23 callouts for either missing people or false alarms but the record in recent years was in 2002 when there were 43 such ‘shouts’.
Skegness Lifeboat Station
17 February 2006
Search for missing woman
Skegness RNLI inshore lifeboat the Leicester Fox II was called out at 7pm on Friday to help police and coastguards in the search for a missing Skegness woman. The woman, in her forties had been missing for most of the day and a telephone call from her husband alerted the authorities that she might put herself in danger.
The ILB crew searched close inshore between Gibraltar Point and Vickers Point north of Ingoldmells for 90 minutes until 8.30pm when the police located the woman and the search was then called off.
This was the second such search incident in a fortnight for Skegness ILB crew.
Skegness Lifeboat Station
18 February 2006
Man overboard
Skegness RNLI all weather lifeboat the Mersey Class Lincolnshire Poacher launched at 12.30pm on Saturday to join a joint search in the Humber estuary area for a man thought to have fallen overboard from the cargo vessel Willow on Friday afternoon.
The Skegness lifeboat joined the Humber and Cromer lifeboats along with the RAF search and rescue helicopter Rescue 128 from Leconfield in a mission that lasted until the light failed and as nothing was found then returned to station.
The man had been missing for 24 hours and the Willow's crew were unsure as to whether the man had fallen overboard or not so the Coastguard started the search to be on the safe side. It's all in a day's work for the volunteer lifeboat crews and it resulted in a six-and-a-half hour mission for the Skegness crew.
Skegness Lifeboat Station
Friday 3 March 2006
Search for man
SKEGNESS RNLI inshore lifeboat crew had a fruitless search on Friday night following a 999 call from a 20-year-old male that he was going to kill himself by going into the sea.
The emergency call alerted the police who called Yarmouth Coastguard to start a search of central beach and surrounding areas by both the lifeboat and coastguard teams.
The ILB launched shortly after 7pm and the crew searched the area a mile either side of central beach but found nothing in the heavy surf. Meanwhile coastguards combed the beach but also found nothing.
After 90 minutes Yarmouth Coastguard called off the search and the ILB returned to station.
Cleethorpe Lifeboat Station
17.50 hrs Sunday 5 March 2006
Recovery of 3 teenage boys
Cleethorpes RNLI Lifeboat Paged by Humber Coast Guards to 3 teenagers cut off on a sand bank close to the Pier by incoming tide.
RNLI Inshore Lifeboat Blue Peter Vl had proceeded to the Pier by 17.53hrs. On arrival 3 three boys aged 16,15 and 15 all from Cleethorpes had started to wade across the creek. So the Softrak Lifeboat launch vehicle went straight into the water to pick the young boys up. They were recovered safely by the RN:I crew and taken to the Coast Guard Station by Brighton Slipway.
Cleethorpes Coastguard had informed the Ambulance Service and a Paramedic crew were waiting at the Coastguard station to check the boys over, as temperatures were just above freezing with the prevailing winds.
After being checked over the teenagers were then driven home by the coast guards.
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