In a few months’ time the fourth Blue Peter 1 lifeboat will come to the end of its service life and after 49 years Littlehampton RNLI will no longer have a Blue Peter lifeboat. In 1966 an appeal was launched by the BBC TV children’s programme Blue Peter to fund […]
Official figures released by the RNLI charity on 27th January show that 2015 was a busy year indeed for Littlehampton’s volunteer lifeboat crews. Collectively, Littlehampton launched Blue Peter 1 and Ray of Hope on 65 rescue missions to a wide range of incidents including commercial fishing vessels in trouble, adrift […]
As part of our national SOS day, Littlehampton lifeboat crew are holding a 24 hour non-stop sponsored row at LittlehamptonTesco. The fundraising event will take place from midday Friday 25th to midday Saturday 26th January 2013 with town Mayor Emma Neno closing the occasion. Lifeboat Crew man Gavin Simmons who […]
A pair of new lifeboat crew members at Littlehampton RNLI Lifeboat Station are to have a vital part of their crew training funded by The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust (The LRET). The two crew members – Thomas Bezants and Richard Winstanley – will complete the charity’s Trainee Crew Course at […]
The crew were paged at 6:49pm to respond to a Pan Pan call from the 12m yacht Liesel with four people aboard, which had fouled a pot line on passage from Brighton to Chichester harbour. Blue Peter 1 was launched at 6:54pm with Andy Harris, Liam Clarke and Rob Devo […]
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