Overview
- Humber Coastguard alerted Hartlepool RNLI at 9:33pm on Friday, and both the all‑weather and inshore lifeboats launched at 9:45pm.
- The inshore crew located the casualty minutes later near the Heugh Breakwater, brought her aboard, and began treatment en route to Ferry Road lifeboat station.
- A North East Ambulance Service paramedic crew and clinical team leader met the lifeboat and transported one patient to hospital.
- Police and Hartlepool Coastguard Rescue were present during the operation, which responders described as a swift, well‑coordinated effort.
- Sea conditions were reported as calm, and both lifeboats were back ready for service by about 10:40pm, with no further update on the woman's condition.