On 19th July 2019, the All Weather Lifeboat (ALB) ‘Spirit of Guernsey’ was launched at about 15:00 to assist the 23 foot motor cruiser Maranello with 2 persons on board. The vessel had broken down approximately 3.8nm SE of the … Continue reading →
Guernsey’s new lifeboat completed its first ‘shout’ to rescue a paraglider stranded on rocks at Pleinmont on 17th July 2019.The new ILB was on scene 16 minutes after leaving the harbour and recovered both the casualty and another person on … Continue reading →
The All Weather Lifeboat (ALB) was back in action at 17:50 on 17th July 2019, soon after dropping off an injured paraglider at St Peter Port. The “Spirit of Guernsey” went to the assistance of motor cruiser Pearl 6 who … Continue reading →
The new inshore lifeboat (ILB) was called out on her first “shout” at 16:25 on Wednesday 17th July 2019, when a report was received at The Joint Emergency Services Control Centre (JESCC) of a paraglider ditching at the base of … Continue reading →
Today (4 July 2019) at 9am, Guernsey welcomed a new RNLI inshore lifeboat to the harbour at St Peter Port. The Elizabeth and Margaret Milligan B-class Atlantic lifeboat joins the all-weather boat in the harbour for a two-year trial period. The volunteer … Continue reading →
At 15:47 on Saturday 29th June 2019, Guernsey Coastguard received a VHF radio call from the local dive vessel Delphys declaring that they had two divers missing in a position approximately 9 cables west of Gross Rock to the north … Continue reading →