Tag Archives: rnli lifeboat
Well Prepared for Round the Island Extravaganza
Meticulous planning is going into Cowes RNLI lifeboat station’s preparations for providing safety cover for the 1,700 yachts competing in this year’s J P Morgan Asset Management’s Round the Island Race next Saturday (June 1).
The 50 mile event, organised...
Dramatic Bank Holiday Rescue in high winds
At 2.30pm on Saturday 4th May the Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat was called to assist the yacht, Marta, which had reported two crew members overboard and one with serious head injuries off Hurst Castle in the Western Solent.
In strong winds and rough seas a 40 year old woman sustained...
An ‘Eggciting’ Fun Morning for Youngsters at Lifeboat Station
A chance to explore Cowes RNLI lifeboat station, and win an Easter egg, is on offer this Good Friday.
Between 10.30 and 12.30 people will be able tour the station which was opened by HM Queen last July, inspect the Atlantic 85 lifeboat ‘Sheena Louise, and speak to...
Cowes Lifeboat Benefits from Dinner and all that Jazz
William Sanderson (right) presents the cheque at the lifeboat station to crew member Chris Cockroft.
An evening of dinner and jazz for 100 guests at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club raised £722 for Cowes RNLI lifeboat station.
It was the fifth such event organised by local...
Volunteers get creative to carry out unusual rescue
The volunteer lifeboat crew at Bembridge had their ingenuity and rescue skills tested to the limit this week, when they assisted a man who had suffered a stroke – leaving him stranded on an old military fort.
Crew members from the station were tasked by Solent Coastguard...
Bembridge lifeboat crew recovers body off the Isle of Wight
A body has been recovered off the east coast of the Isle of Wight this afternoon (1st November)
The Bembridge RNLI Lifeboat was launched just before 1pm to collect the body after it was spotted by crew members on-board the HMS Brocklesby.
The body has yet to be identified.
The...
A mystery sunken yacht is found by trawler
Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat crew were called to assist after a trawler Sally Jane, snagged a sunken yacht, Nicola, and hauled it to the surface just west of Hurst Spit on the evening of Tuesday 1 November.
The lifeboat, Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer), was called to render...
