Coast To Cobbles, Silloth: The Big Launch Event

Name: Join The RNLI Coast To Cobbles Launch Event In Silloth
Start: 2024-09-28T09:30
End: 2024-09-28T16:00

Saturday 28 September 9.30am to 4pm

Come together at Silloth Lifeboat Station for the first of our Coast To Cobbles events, which celebrate RNLI lifesaving across North West England over the last 200 years … and counting.

Four Silloth lifeboat volunteers onboard their B class Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat Elaine and Don Wilkinson during a training exercise at sea — Meet your Silloth lifeboat crew at the Coast To Cobbles launch event

Highlights of this Coast To Cobbles launch event in Silloth:

See the time capsule being filled with memories
Be part of the special moment when the lifeboat station volunteers and members of the local community add their RNLI memories to the Coast To Cobbles time capsule.
Add your own memories
Proudly add your own precious RNLI memories to the time capsule memory book.
Cheer at the time capsule presentation
Grab an RNLI flag and cheer on the local schoolchildren, who will carry the time capsule from Silloth Lifeboat Station to the Coast To Cobbles lifeboat and present it to the crew.
Watch water safety demonstrations
Learn how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe when in, on or around the water, and what to do in an emergency.
Meet your RNLI lifesavers
Meet the volunteers at Silloth Lifeboat Station who help to save lives around this stretch of Irish Sea coastline, including the lifeboat crew, shore crew, fundraisers and water safety experts.
Explore the lifeboat station
Join a tour and see firsthand the lifesaving equipment, kit and facilities that are crucial to saving lives and bringing the crew home safe - all funded by kind people like you.
Enjoy music and refreshments
Listen to sea shanties performed by local ukulele players the Ukes of Allonby.
Wave farewell to the Coast To Cobbles lifeboat
Bid the Coast To Cobbles lifeboat crew bon voyage as they begin their journey to Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, collecting more RNLI memories along the way.

About Coast To Cobbles

Coast To Cobbles is a series of events that bring volunteers and supporters together to celebrate the courage and kindness that has powered our lifesaving in North West England since 1824.

The main five events, which include this one at Silloth Lifeboat Station, are taking place between 28 September and 12 October 2024 along the route of our special Coast To Cobbles lifeboat and its volunteer crew. They are travelling by sea, river and canal - from Silloth in Cumbria to Salford Quays in Greater Manchester - filling a time capsule with precious RNLI memories along the way.