Tag Archives: ALB Torbay

Incident Date12-10-2024Launch Instruct08:30Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyMeadfoot Beach area. Launched following a number of 999 calls reporting a kayak seen to be in trouble off Meadfoot beach. A person appeared to have capsized into the water 30 metres into the sea and was struggling to get back aboard. On the way there, we were radioedContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 52: 12-10-2024”

Incident Date10-10-2024Launch Instruct08:48Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyBerry Head area. Launched to support a police-led Search-And-Rescue incident at Berry Head. We provided assistance, returning to station at 10.35am.

Incident Date03-10-2024Launch Instruct12:53 Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyGoodrington area.

Incident Date02-10-2024Launch Instruct18:50Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyGoodrington area.

Incident Date09-09-2024Launch Instruct22:18Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyPaignton Beach area.

Incident Date06-09-2024Launch Instruct22:44Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyGoodrington area. Shout from Solent Coastguard for an immediate launch of our D-Class In shore Lifeboat (ILB) to assist Coastguard Rescue Team (CRT) attending to a reported distressed non-swimmer in the water on the north side of Goodrington sands. At 11.02pm, CRT informed us the casualty was safely outContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 47: 06-09-2024”

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 theContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 46: 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 cancelledContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 45: 22-08-2024”

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 BerryContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 44: 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)ContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 43: 20-08-2024”