Early morning call for Morecambe’s volunteer lifeboat crew
Morecambe’s volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew called to assist with search for missing woman.
At 5.20am on Monday 06 August 2018, HM Coastguard requested Morecambe’s RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew to assist police officers and local coastguard teams searching for a woman, reported to be in low mood, amid concerns that she may have entered the water somewhere between Heysham and Sunderland Point.
The inshore lifeboat and inshore rescue hovercraft were both en-route to the search area when they were stood down; after it was confirmed that the missing woman had been located and was safe.
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