Tag Archives: ILB Torbay

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”

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”

Incident Date13-08-2024Launch Instruct22:54Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyTorbay area.

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”

Incident Date02-08-2024Launch Instruct16:50Lifeboat UsedILB Location of CasualtyTorbay area.

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”

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”

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”