Iain Beaton, who first joined Portree RNLI in 2019, will now become part of the group of volunteer Coxswains of the current Trent class RNLI lifeboat, Stanley Watson Barker. Iain and his family are ...

The Whitstable B-Class lifeboat Lewisco was launched at 6.39pm and located the casualty vessel under sail but with no means of engine power around 2-miles east of The Spile Buoy off Warden Point on ...

Stranraer RNLI Lifeboat Station has announced a change in leadership, with Antony Simpson taking on the role of Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM), succeeding Sean Hannah, who has held the position ...

Wednesday 8 October 2025 was a very proud day for the station as Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI were chosen to represent the whole of the RNLI at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London for the Annual ...

The passouts were conducted by Sean Ginnelly, Coastal Lifeboat Trainer, who had travelled up from Achill Island to conduct the assessments on behalf of the RNLI. The passouts, conducted on Wednesday ...

Angle lifeboat crew were paged at 8.52am on Sunday morning, following reports of a 4.8m motorboat that had lost power near the Jolly Sailor in Burton. The vessel had deployed its anchor but was ...

‘We are all very excited that a Shannon class lifeboat has been allocated to Portree in 2026, bringing a new chapter for lifesaving at the station. The Shannon is now well established in the RNLI ...

A recent RNLI training exercise brought together over 160 years of lifeboat crew experience aboard Torbay’s All-Weather Lifeboat (ALB). Four of the onboard crew alone had amassed over 120 years of ...

Throughout the year the station's volunteers have attended shouts to sinking fishing boats, people caught in rip currents, missing persons along the coastline, jet skiers and paddleboarders in trouble ...

Last month (Wednesday 10 September 2025), a surfer was rescued by Porthcawl RNLI after he was caught in a powerful rip current and waved to a member of the public walking their dog, who dialled 999 ...

The volunteer crew at Largs Lifeboat nominated their Lifeboat Operations Manager, John Griffiths, for a recognition award from The Coastguard Association as he approaches 60 years of active service in ...

New Brighton RNLI’s volunteer crew were put to the test in tricky conditions, when tasked during Storm Amy on Saturday 4 October. The pagers sounded at 12:46pm for New Brighton RNLI’s Atlantic-85 ...