Both Hartlepool RNLI lifeboats were paged at 10.26am on Monday, August 9, following a request by Humber Coastguard which said flares had been fired from a boat.

A FISHING boat unable to find the entrance to Hartlepool Marina in thick fog today (Thursday, December 13) was escorted to safety by the town's lifeboat. The skipper of the 28ft vessel rang a ...

Hartlepool RNLI went to the aid of injured fishing boat skipper Darren Greenwood after he was crushed by a wave while working 15 miles offshore last March.

In 1788 he commissioned an Essex coachbuilder to convert a local fishing boat into an unsinkable boat in order to save lives – some 40 years before the the RNLI was established.

TWO boats that suffered mechanical failure while near the North-East coast were rescued by the RNLI on Saturday (July 13). At 1.55pm, Hartlepool RNLI volunteers were called by the Humber ...