Welcome to Tynemouth Lifeboat

Tynemouth RNLI station is situated on the East Quayside at North Shields, just inside the mouth of the River Tyne on the North East coast of England. The station and its volunteer crew provides a round the clock marine search and rescue service covering local coasts and up to 100 nautical miles out to sea.

Lifeboat Christening for baby Ewan. The five month old son of crewmember Mark “Charlie” Charlton and wife Bridgit was christened aboard the all weather lifeboat in a moving and unusual ceremony. Read more.

Tynemouth RNLI station crew assembled for the naming ceremony of the inshore lifeboat Mark Noble on Sunday, September 28, 2008

Davey’s off to pastures new. Stalwart crewmember and 2nd Mechanic Dave Thompson has achieved his dream of working full time for the RNLI - as Station Mechanic at Harwich lifeboat station, Suffolk. Read more