Category: Callouts 2013

Eastbourne’s all-weather lifeboat Diamond Jubilee was launched this afternoon to assist a small angling boat in difficulties five miles off Sovereign Harbour  The angling boat with two persons on board had been fishing during...

Two callouts, an exercise with the coastguard rescue helicopter and a Salvation Army dedication service kept the volunteer crew of Eastbourne lifeboats occupied during a busy Sunday’s ‘day of rest’.  The day started routinely...

Both RNLI Eastbourne lifeboats were called into action this morning tasked to two separate incidents  Initially the inshore lifeboat was requested to launch by Dover Coastguard to assist with the recovery of a body from the...

Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat was launched this afternoon following a report from a beach angler of an object in the water. Searching the surf line in liaison with mobile coastguard officers in 30 knot winds several large...

Eastbourne’s all-weather lifeboat (ALB) was launched early this morning in response to a ‘Pan-Pan’ distress call from a vessel with three people on board two miles off Beachy Head.  Shortly before 06.00 this morning (25 Oct)...