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COASTAL SEARCH AND RESCUE SINCE 1864

SAVING LIVES ALONG THE COAST

Coastal search and rescue services since 1864

HOW YOUR SUPPORT HELPS

Your support allows us to provide a life saving coastal rescue service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

KEEPING HERITAGE ALIVE

A unique collection of artefacts that recreate the dramatic history of the TVLB and our coastal rescues from our formation in 1864

SEE FOR YOURSELF

Visit our free to enter, Watchouse museum which stands proudly overlooking the mouth of the Tyne.

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WELCOME TO TYNEMOUTH VOLUNTEER LIFEBRIGADE

On Call 24/7 : 365 Days of the year : Whatever the weather.

The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade is a voluntary shore based coastal search and rescue service founded in 1864. We are a Declared Facility to HM Coastguard for Rope Rescue, Water Rescue, Coastal Search and Rescue and also have advanced first aid capabilities.

SUPPORT US

There are many ways you can support us, from fundraising and event participation to regular giving through our supporters' Honorary Membership

Our volunteers are on call 24-7, 365 days of the year to help people who get into in difficulty at the coast, and are North Tyneside's declared facility to HM Coastguard

THE WATCH HOUSE MUSEUM

The Museum displays artefacts, pictures and relics from old shipwrecks chronicling the history of lifesaving on our coastline since 1864. Click on the link below for more information and opening times

TVLB BRITISH WOOL GANSEY

Now for sale via our knitwear partner Jo Storie designed in Northumberland and knitted in in a small artisanal factory in Cumbria, using yarn from British farmers in Yorkshire Mill and finally embroidered in Whitley Bay

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121/23 – Monday 4th December 2023 – 10.15h – HM Coastguard tasked the Brigade and Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat after receiving a report of a possible person in the River Tyne needing assistance near to Wallsend. The Lifeboat quickly arrived on scene and confirmed that the ‘person’ was in fact a tender attached to a buoy. The Lifeboat crew managed to move the tender ashore to prevent it sinking or further calls being made regarding it. … See MoreSee Less

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our history

The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade (TVLB) is the oldest and one of only 3 remaining active Volunteer Life Brigades in the UK. The TVLB was formed following the tragic loss of 32 souls from the stricken ships of the S.S.Stanley and the schooner Friendship on 24th November 1864 at the Black Middens rocks at Tynemouth.