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Ladies saving lives at Hartlepool RNLI

Lifeboats News Release

It was business as usual during 'International Women's Day' for Hartlepool RNLI volunteer crew members Clare Barber, Jayne Mandeville and Chandler Wilson as they took part in a training session from the Ferry Road boathouse on a cold crisp Sunday Morning.

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Hartlepool RNLI volunteer crewmembers(left to right) Jayne Mandeville, Clare Barber and Chandler Wilson.
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Clare who works for a local sub-sea cable company and is currently deputy second coxswain for the all weather lifeboat and a helm for the inshore lifeboat at the station said 'I think it's important to recognize the event and highlight the fact women are doing the same job roles as anyone else. As volunteers we all work together here with one aim which is to simply to save lives at sea’.

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Tom Collins
Lifeboat Press Officer, Hartlepool Lifeboat Station

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