RNLI South east and london news

Volunteers from Newhaven’s RNLI lifeboat station were called out to two vessels, which both suffered engine problems on two different days.

The first incident was on Sunday 29 January when the volunteer lifeboat crew were tasked at 12...

Hunstanton RNLI lifeboat crew rescued a kite-surfer after the station’s volunteer lifeboat press officer spotted a kite drifting out to sea off Hunstanton at 3.22pm on Wednesday 1 February...

Volunteers at Hastings RNLI lifeboat station were bubbling with joy following their latest squeaky clean fundraising day.

Every year over 230 of the RNLI’s lifeboat stations co-ordinate in one giant fundraising effort for the charity’s annual SOS Day...

Members of Cowes RNLI lifeboat were among those that assembled in Newport today to welcome ex-soldier Phil Packer, on a grueling country-wide 2,012 mile BRIT 2012 charity hike.

Ex-soldier Phil, who suffered spinal injuries in Iraq in 2008, is aiming to raise money towards the building of a £15 million centre for youngsters facing adversity...

Two Shoreham lifeboat crewmen have received awards from the RNLI for their actions during a mid-Channel collision between a yacht and a beam trawler.

Steve Smith, who is the new Shoreham lifeboat coxswain, and second mechanic Simon Tugwell have each been presented with framed letters of thanks signed by RNLI Chairman Admiral the Lord Boyce for the rescue last August...

The RNLI has launched a campaign which will see every lifeboat station across Hampshire and Sussex take delivery of new, specially-designed lifejackets this year.

The charity that saves lives at sea is appealing to people across the land to help fund the new lifejackets, which have been commissioned because the previous lifejackets were coming to the end of their recommended operational life span...

A slide show with an auction, street and pub collections, and meals in a local restaurant, ensured that Cowes played its part in the RNLI's big annual country-wide SOS fund-raising campaign.

The Cowes events took place last Saturday (28 January) and netted a total of £2,124 - all going towards Cowes RNLI's new lifeboat station appeal...

Academy-award winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow was among a host of stars who donated items for auction at an annual RNLI Pub Quiz, organised for RNLI SOS Day, the charity’s largest fundraising day. 

The quiz, which takes place each year at The Duke of York pub in Borough Road, Southwark, raised a whopping £5,460 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the lifesaving charity that has been operating a search and rescue service on the River Thames since 2002...

Littlehampton’s volunteer lifeboat crew responded to a somewhat unusual incident at the weekend when they assisted a swan in distress after fishing equipment became lodged in its throat.

The crew of the lifeboat station were out on their usual Sunday morning exercise when they came across the large white swan in distress on the River Arun...

Lifeboat crews from Chiswick and Teddington raised almost £8,000 for the RNLI’s SOS Day – but are still striving to meet the £10,000 target to fund their replacement lifejackets.

Crew members from the two River Thames lifeboat stations once again took up residency in the Bentall Centre in Kingston-Upon-Thames, for a gruelling two-day sponsored challenge...

Eastbourne RNLI’s inshore lifeboat went to the assistance of two visitors yesterday afternoon (Sun 29 Jan) when they became cut off by the incoming tide whilst walking along the shore beneath the cliffs at Beachy Head

The couple had set out earlier from Birling Gap for a bracing work along the shoreline to celebrate a birthday but the afternoon ended in a tense scramble across jagged rocks, waist deep in freezing water for the couple from Richmond. Luckily several other walkers at the top of the cliffs saw the couple’s predicament as they realized their escape from the beach had been cut off by the flooding tide and they alerted the emergency services by dialling 999 on their mobile telephones...

Once again this year the volunteers of Littlehampton Lifeboat Station took to the town with collection buckets, raising money for the RNLI on SOS Day.

Spirit of Juniper, the station's D-class lifeboat was driven into the High Street accompanied by the crew, shore crew, fundraisers, family members and even Amber the dog...

On Friday 27 January a lone dinghy sailor was plucked from the sea west of Hurst Castle as he was being swept out through the Needles Channel. The Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat, The Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) had been called by the coastguard following a radio call from a passing yacht...