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 [...]
Members of the public are invited to come visit us in Littlehampton Saturday 28th January for the RNLI’s SOS day. The Littlehampton Lifeboat station will be open all day, with crew on hand to show visitors round the boathouse and the lifeboat ‘Blue Peter 1’. ‘Spirit of Juniper’ the station’s [...]
Littlehampton Lifeboat Station welcomes local charter boat skipper to their team of volunteers. Recently retired commercial skipper, Ivan Warren has worked off the Sussex coast for much of his life. In his early years running a fishing boat from Lancing beach, working out of Littlehampton Harbour since the 1970s and [...]
After a quiet start to the year Littlehampton’s lifeboats were called out in the early hours of Saturday morning for the first two shouts of 2012. The first came after a 999 call to the coastguard was made reporting a person seen entering the River Arun, close to the road [...]
Mayday Mayday features footage shot on helmet cameras and fixed cameras during lifeboat calls. Each programme usually includes four rescues performed by lifeboats from all around the UK, and during the series up to six shouts undertaken by Littlehampton’s teo lifeboats will be included.
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