RNLI East news

Harwich RNLI called to workboat "Triton"

Keith Churchman

Harwich RNLI’s Inshore Lifeboat, whilst on exercise on Tuesday evening was diverted to assist the workboat “ Triton” adrift at the Ganges Buoy with gearbox failure.

The Triton with two people onboard had called for assistance by telephone to the lifeboat station at 19...

RNLI Hovercraft launch to inflatable off Old Hunstanton

Geoff Needham

Yarmouth Coastguard requested immediate launch yesterday afternoon to a report of a rubber inflatable drifting out to sea and one person swimming out to it.

It is understood that two children were on the inflatable and the father was trying to reach them...

Southend lifeboat tends fouled motor boat

Denis Freeman

Southend on sea’s RNLI inshore lifeboat was launched at 19.40 hrs to 18ft motor boat near Two Tree Island...

Southend lifeboat aids grounded yacht

Denis Freeman

Southend on sea’s RNLI lifeboat was launched at 14.10hrs to a 35ft gaff rigged cutter that had engine problems and had ran aground on the man made island approx one and a quarter miles from the shore off of East Beach, Shoeburyness...

Young Cyclists raise funds for RNLI

Amy Ross

Six young cyclists have raised over £300 for the RNLI after cycling 15 miles from Sheerness to Minster and back again.
Ian McKenzie, aged 13, organised the cycle ride and he, along with his younger brother James, aged 10, and four friends cycled from Blue Town, in Sheerness through Queensborough and Minster and back along the seafront to Sheerness again, and then repeated the route to make it 15 miles in total...

RNLI part of Armed Forces' Day

Amy Ross

The RNLI took part in the first-ever national Armed Forces’ Day, held at Chatham Historic Dockyard, last Saturday 27 June.
Armed Forces’ day is an opportunity for the general public to honour past and present service personnel from the army, navy and other forces...

Dover and Littlestone-on-Sea Lifeboats go to look for missing dinghy

Tony Hawkins

The volunteer RNLI crews of the Dover all weather and Littlestone-on-Sea Inshore Lifeboats launched on Monday (29th) afternoon after Kent Police reported a dinghy and its six occupants going missing off the beach near Hythe’s Imperial Hotel.
Reports indicated that a small, outboard motor powered, inflatable dinghy had been seen going out of sight, towing a lilo...

Clacton-on-Sea lifeboat launches to motor boat in fog

Mel Winger

Clacton-on-Sea’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat was called into action shortly before 6pm when a 24 foot motor boat reported engine failure.
Having dropped anchor the boat gave its position as one mile off Jaywick...

Dover Lifeboat goes to aid of dismasted yacht

Tony Hawkins

A trio of yachtsmen en route to London needed the assistance of Dover RNLI Lifeboat on Saturday (27th) afternoon. They were sailing in good conditions when the mast of their 10m yacht snapped...

RNLI Dungeness lifeboat volunteers help rescue plane crash pilot in English Channel

Katie Wilton

The volunteer crew of Dungeness Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) – the charity that saves lives at sea – all-weather lifeboat launched at approximately 1455 hours this afternoon (Sunday 28 June 2009) to go to the aid of an air-craft pilot whose plane had crashed into the English Channel.
The pilot of the plane ditched his small aircraft into the sea approximately four miles south west of Dungeness Point...