The crew was paged shortly after 5pm on Wednesday 23rd March 2016, and Andy Harris, Rob Devo and Richard Winstanley launched aboard D-769 Ray of Hope just before low water on a spring tide, which means that there was almost no depth on the bar at the harbour entrance. The […]
On Friday 18th March the coastguard received a VHF radio call from a leisure cruiser. It had suffered complete engine failure and was stranded at sea seven and a half miles south of Littlehampton. The Atlantic lifeboat launched immediately and headed out in overcast weather. They came alongside the vessel […]
On Sunday 19th July at 1:19pm Littlehampton RNLI were paged by the coastguard to assist a leisure craft with four crew onboard. The vessel had suffered engine failure and was drifting on rough seas in force 6 winds. The station’s Atlantic 75 Blue Peter 1 lifeboat was already at sea on a training exercise with […]
Littlehampton RNLI had a busy afternoon on Wednesday 15th July, with two shouts on the same day. The first shout came when the crew of a small motor boat called the coastguard by mobile phone. Their vessel had suffered engine failure and broken down four miles south of Littlehampton Harbour and they […]
Yesterday’s shout, launch at 5:10pm to a 35ft yacht on passage from Brighton to Chichester. A headwind made for slow progress, so the crew opted to motor, but the engine wouldn’t run properly. Changed course for Littlehampton, but the full ebb and weight of rainwater meant a 5 knot current […]
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