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Five Children Rescued Off the Coast of Cornwall After Being Blown Out to Sea
Falmouth Coastguard were alerted at 4.00 pm Saturday afternoon to a report of various children in distress on a grey 7 foot yacht tender which was being blown out to sea in strong offshore winds at Carne beach near Portscatho in Cornwall, England.
Russian Ship Master in Court After Being Found Drunk in Charge of Ship
Associated British Ports Holdings (ABP) contacted the Maritime & Coastguard Agency via Solent Coastguard after concerns were raised that a vessel ‘Balu C’ was not being managed correctly on its passage into a berth at the port. The Master of the...
Cell Phone Call Saves Couple Adrift in Harsh Weather Conditions
At 02.26 this morning Yarmouth Coastguard received an emergency call on a cell phone from a 30 ft motor cruiser the LADY3. The owner of the vessel said that she had suffered engine failure at 10 00 pm Saturday evening just off the mouth of the River Humber...
Female Pilot Rescued After Light Aircraft Ditches Off Morecambe, England
At 12.15 in the afternoon Liverpool Coastguard were contacted by Air Traffic Control to inform them that a light aircraft had disappeared from their radars and was suspected of ditching off Morecambe Bay. The aircraft had been traveling from Guernsey...
180 Tons of Water Found Inside Detained Ship
Ship surveyors from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency have detained the Antigua & Barbuda flagged ‘Hanseatic Spirit’ at Portland. The 2,650 GT general cargo vessel was detained by the Agency after she called into Portland on her way from Poole...
Seven Rescued From Catamaran Outside Lynmouth Harbor, North Devon
Swansea Coastguard picked up a faint message at just before 14.00 local time from the yacht ‘Ocean Blue’, a 10 meter, twin engined, catamaran, which at the time was just outside Lynmouth harbor in North Devon. The crew described that there were seven...
International Search Underway for 3,998-tonne Arctic Sea And Its Crew of 15
An international search for the 3,998-tonne Arctic Sea and its crew of 15 is underway after the huge ship and its £1 million timber cargo disappeared traveling from Finland to North Africa. According to officials, the ship was due to arrive at the Algerian...
Coastguards Honored in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Two Coastguards have been honored by the Queen in this year’s 2009 Birthday Honours List. Peter Dymond from New Milton, Hampshire, a former Chief Coastguard at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and now Project Manager for the volunteer Coastguard...
