RNLI Lifeboat D-879 'Thee Andy Cantle' (MMSI: 232046187)

The Inshore Lifeboat of the Sunderland Lifeboat station responding to a call out. This particular call out involved both Sunderland lifeboats, as well as a coastguard helicopter dispatched from Prestwick in Scotland and the Tynemouth lifeboat (17-34 'Osier'). The small craft is named after a former crew member of the Sunderland RNLI station who tragically lost his life in an air crash at Cork Airport, Ireland in 2011. PIP #1: The coastguard helicopter searching the River Wear.