YOUNGSTERS from Shanklin CE Primary School pulled together on Sunday by putting their backs into heaving along Sandown and Shanklin’s Inshore Lifeboat for charity.
Around 200 people, including parents, firefighters and coastguards from Ventnor, helped with the charity pull, dragging the lifeboat and its trailer with a combined weight of four tonnes.
The charity heave, to raise funds for the lifeboat, formed part of a display by the crew of the lifeboat and the coastguard rescue helicopter based at Lee on Solent.
The helicopter and the lifeboat joined forces to stage a display where a 'casualty’ was plucked from the water by the lifeboat before being hauled to safety on board the chopper.
Coxswain of the lifeboat Mark Birch said: "We had to slow the pull down there was so much force with the children and everyone hanging on. Everyone pulled together. It was fantastic."
Reporter: davidn@iwpcmail.co.uk