Tag Archives: ALB Torbay

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 CrewContinueContinue 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,ContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 40: 12-08-2024”

ILB SHOUT 35: 20-07-2024

Incident Date20-07-2024Launch Instruct22:26Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyTorquay Harbour area. Solent Coastguard paged the ILB direct due to report of a person in the water in Torquay Harbour who could not swim, the initial report was that a male was inside Torquay Harbour between Princess Pier and the Marina.ILB launched, and whilst enroute, the Coastguard advisedContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 35: 20-07-2024”

ILB SHOUT 34: 19-07-2024

Incident Date19-07-2024Launch Instruct18:49Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyPreston Beach area. Alert first raised by an informant that had been watching two pairs of people about 1/2 a mile off Preston Sands and had lost sight of both groups, so the ILB was launched. Coastguard Rescue Team had made contact with the informant and reported one pairContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 34: 19-07-2024”

ILB SHOUT 33: 19-07-2024

Incident Date19-07-2024Launch Instruct16:38Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyPaignton Beach area. Launched to assist an inflatable dinghy off Paignton beach with an adult and teenager calling for help in a stiff offshore breeze.Following the launch, word came through that a boat picked them up and taken them to Paignton harbour.The ILB proceeded to harbour to check allContinueContinue reading “ILB SHOUT 33: 19-07-2024”

ILB SHOUT 32: 17-07-2024

Incident Date17-07-2024Launch Instruct21:56Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyHollicombe Beach area. Launched to rescue three persons cut off by tide at Hollicombe Beach.On arrival one person had already made it back to safely so the ILB assisted the other two off the rocks and landed back ashore and left then with a Coastguard team.