Lifeboat crew praised for rescuing missing dummy

A lifeboat crew carried out an unusual rescue mission after "someone" was spotted in the North Sea.

The Filey Lifeboat was called out after reports of a person in the water near Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire, on Monday morning.

To their surprise, crew members found a training dummy, which had been reported missing by colleagues in Hartlepool two weeks ago.

Nevertheless, the team was praised for their swift response to the incident.

The RNLI crew's counterparts in Hartlepool took to social media to respond to the news that their training dummy had been recovered.

"He'd better come back with some sticks of rock, he didn’t get his holiday pre-authorised," one member of the team wrote.

Others praised the response to what might have been an emergency situation.

"Brilliant effort from the team, when the call comes they just go no matter who or what has to be rescued," one post read.

Another comment said: "Well done, and I hope the Hartlepool lads are buying you a round of drinks for clearing up their failure." The Hartlepool team replied: "You may say failure, we say learning event."

The lifeboat station in Filey was established in 1804 and was taken over by the RNLI in 1852.

Since its inception, crews have dealt with all manner of rescues, including people stranded by rising tides and vessels in distress.

The RNLI charity formed on 4 March 1824 and has saved more than 144,000 lives across the UK and Ireland.

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