ALB SHOUT 40: 21-08-2024

Incident Date21-08-2024Launch Instruct04:01Lifeboat UsedALB Location of CasualtyLyme Bay area. The request to launch came in from Solent Coastguard at 4.01pm following a May Day from a 11-metre-long sailing yacht with six people on board. The vessel reported a complete loss of steerage with a position 23 nautical miles southeast of Berry Head, facing deteriorating conditionsContinue reading "ALB SHOUT 40: 21-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 46: 22-08-2024

Incident Date22-08-2024Launch Instruct21:07Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyPaignton area. HM Coastguard requested Torbay RNLI assist a 3.5-metre RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) that had broken down between Paignton and Brixham and was drifting out to sea.Our In-shore Lifeboat (ILB) launched at 9:07pm and located the RIB by 9.15pm. Given the situation and potential danger of leaving theContinue reading "ILB SHOUT 46: 22-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 45: 22-08-2024

Incident Date22-08-2024Launch Instruct16:30Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyTorquay area. Shout paged to us at 4.30pm, following a report of two teenagers being blown out to sea on a Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP), and called in to the Coastguard by their parents at Meadfoot Beach. However three minutes after our ILB launched at 4.40pm, the shout was cancelledContinue reading "ILB SHOUT 45: 22-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 44: 20-08-2024

Incident Date20-08-2024Launch Instruct20:48Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyBerry Head area. Information and coastguard requests coming from both Solent Coastguard and Falmouth Coastguard since the area borders and overlaps both domains of responsibility. Solent Coastguard initially contacted Torbay Lifeboat station to inform us that several people were spotted in a dinghy just off the rocks at BerryContinue reading "ILB SHOUT 44: 20-08-2024"

ALB SHOUT 39: 20-08-2024

Incident Date20-08-2024Launch Instruct16:15Lifeboat UsedALB Location of CasualtySaltern Cove area. Solent Coastguard requested a direct-to-launch for the ILB, to respond to a series of reports of male struggling onto (and repeatedly falling off) a blue paddle board off Saltern Cove, near Goodrington. The last report stated he was clinging to one of the five knot buoysContinue reading "ALB SHOUT 39: 20-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 43: 20-08-2024

Incident Date20-08-2024Launch Instruct12:27Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyBreakwater Beach area. A member of the public approached our RNLI fundraisers at the Lifeboat Station to report that a person appeared to be in trouble, struggling in the water approximately 200 metres off Breakwater Beach, near “an orange buoy”. Our ILB Crew and attendant Deputy Launch Authority (DLA)Continue reading "ILB SHOUT 43: 20-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 42: 20-08-2024

Incident Date20-08-2024Launch Instruct11:06Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyPaignton Beach area. Solent Coastguard paged and radioed Torbay Lifeboat station following a report of two young children on paddleboard off Paignton Beach [Preston end] with their mother in the water trying to recover them. ILB went straight to launch at 11.06am.Upon arriving at the scene, our volunteer CrewContinue reading "ILB SHOUT 42: 20-08-2024"

ILB SHOUT 40: 12-08-2024

Incident Date12-08-2024Launch Instruct13:35Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyTorbay area. Our volunteers launched our In-shore Lifeboat (ILB) at 1.35pm , tasked by HM Coastguard to go to the help of two female teenagers who were spotted perched on rubber rings being blown out to sea by an off-shore wind at Goodrington.One of the two girls could swim,Continue reading "ILB SHOUT 40: 12-08-2024"

ALB SHOUT 38: 11-08-2024

Incident Date11-08-2024Launch Instruct17:05Lifeboat UsedALB Location of CasualtyLyme Bay area. Our All-weather Lifeboat (ALB) launched yesterday, Sunday 11th August, at 5.05pm to assist an injured person who had fallen badly aboard a 10m sailing yacht which was approximately 10 nautical miles east of Berry Head.HM Coastguard also tasked a rescue helicopter in case urgent evacuation ofContinue reading "ALB SHOUT 38: 11-08-2024"