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The Duchess of Kent arrives in town on Friday on Whitby’s Trent class lifeboat, The George and Mary Webb SHE came, she saw, she mesmerized the crowd and left people in Whitby hailing Friday 7 September 2007 as an historic day for the town.The...
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WHITBY'S gleaming new £1m lifeboat station is now in operation and will provide the crew with a base to be proud of for generations to come.The new boathouse boasts modern facilities allowing the crew to carry out their duties and training under...
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SIX people were towed to safety after their yacht suffered an electrical fault out at sea.Staithes RNLI lifeboat launched at 10.10am on Saturday to assist the disabled yacht which was close to the shore off Staithes.The yacht’s skipper had contacted...
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WHITBY lifeboat was launched last Friday morning (23 Feb) to rescue a local fishing trawler that had broken down at sea.The crew was first alerted at 6am when the Whitby vessel, Nicholas M, suffered engine failure around 10 miles away.The trawler was alre...
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BOTH Whitby lifeboats were called into action on Wednesday afternoon after a boat lost power and beached on sand opposite Whitby Pavilion.The 21ft rib Misty Blue had suffered engine failure just off the coast.The weather pushed the vessel towards the shor...
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WHITBY'S new lifeboat station is nearing completion and with the official opening due to be on 7 September the Whitby Gazette has been given an exclusive tour to see how the development has progressed.With the finishing touches being applied to the ex...
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A WHITBY fundraiser has been recognised for here years of selfless effort to raise money for the RNLI.Ali Thomson received a Silver Badge award in a special ceremony held at York Racecourse on Sunday.She has been fundraising for the charity for nea...
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PEOPLE are being reminded about a special event this Sunday at Whitby lifeboat house.For the first time, the doors will be thrown open to the general public, enabling them to have a glimpse of the group’s new base.The open day at the £1m stati...
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TWO lifeboats and a helicopter were involved in a search after concerns were raised about a man who was thought to have gone missing in the Robin Hood's Bay area.The man had gone to look for his dog, but when he did not return, his wife called the coa...
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WHITBY'S newest lifeboat second coxswain was press-ganged onto the crew when he was 'dragged out of the pub' 23 years ago – and hasn't looked back since.Nick Botham (46) of Ash Grove, joined Whitby lifeboat in 1983 after crew mechani...
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A TEEENAGE boy has died despite a massive rescue effort to save him.Adam Bond (17), from Pudsey near Leeds was playing fully-clothed in the sea with his older brother in front of the chalets on the West Cliff beach on Wednesday evening when a large wave d...
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THE owners of a dog called Tyson thought he would be out for the count after he fell 100ft down a cliff.The drama began on Tuesday when owners Robert and Sue Hayward, from Stamford Bridge, were taking their doberman/alsatian cross for a walk on the...
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A WOMAN had a remarkable escape after plummeting 70ft down a cliff at Sandsend Ness.The 38-year-old woman, from Easingwold near York, was airlifted to Scarborough Hospital on Tuesday after falling into the sea but she walked out of hospital a few hours la...
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A TEENAGER has died after swimming in the sea at Whitby. The 15-year-old boy from Pudsey near Leeds was in the sea in front of the beach chalets in Whitby at 6pm on Wednesday.As his mother and her partner looked on the boy was dragged out to sea by a wave...
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WHITBY lifeboat has been launched 29 times this summer, making it the busiest station in the north.The latest figures reveal RNLI lifeboats in the north have had one of their busiest summers on record with 34 stations carrying out 460 rescues between June...
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A PAINTING of a heroic lifeboat rescue off Whitby is expected to fetch up to £18,000 when it is auctioned.The Rescue Of The Survivors Of The Brig Henry, by William Joy, is due to be sold by Sotheby's on Tuesday. The rescue depicted dates from 18...
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FORMER Whitby lifeboat with an heroic past has been discovered on internet auction site eBay. The William Riley rowing lifeboat was built in 1909 and was based at the former Upgang station.She was involved in one of the most daring rescues ever when...
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FIRING maroons to alert Whitby lifeboat crews to emergencies looks set to become a thing of the past.The RNLI has asked stations to stop using the explosive rockets and to only set them off as back-up if the electronic paging system fails. Whitby Coxswain...
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FORMER Whitby lifeboat has returned home after a team brought it from Devon on the back of a lorry. The William Riley used to be the town's Upgang lifeboat and was involved in the heroic rescue of HMHS Rohilla in 1914.On the closure of Upgang st...
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THE lifesize sculpture of Henry Freeman which will form the centre piece of Whitby's new lifeboat station is almost finished.And fund-raising for the bronze cast has been given a huge boost thanks to a £1,000 donation from the Licensed Victualle...