RNLI commemorates 100 years of tractor launched lifeboats
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has been looking back at the first tractors used to launch lifeboats a...
Rescue
Fascinating marine rescues which have taken place, including those by the RNLI, local rescue stations and other organisations across the globe.
One dead, 12 missing as liftboat capsizes
Seacor Marine’s liftboat SEACOR Power has capsized 8 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. According to the US Coast Guard, one person...
Support to be sent to Antarctic resupply ship engulfed in fireball
A rescue ship will be sent to meet an Antarctic resupply vessel which was engulfed in a fireball while...
Up the creek without a paddle
A kayaker believed to have travelled from England to Scotland was left up the creek without a paddle, having...
Tow planned for adrift cargo ship this afternoon
The Dutch cargo ship, Eemslift Hendrika, which has been operating without crew and engine in the Norwegian Sea since...
Abandoned ship, carrying cargo of boats, adrift in rough seas
The crew of the Dutch ship, Eemslift Hendrika, had to abandon its vessel late on Monday, seemingly after a...
Watch: dramatic scene as fire-yacht carried to town quay
Four people including two children have been rescued from a burning yacht at Conwy Harbour. The yacht crew had...
Stricken fishing vessel sinks despite multi-agency response
A stricken fishing vessel has sunk after a weekend of multi-agency activity to bring her to safety. The Ellie...
Watch: Fisherman saves boy from drifting ice with one cast
A schoolboy has been rescued by a fisherman after he got stranded on a drifting ice floe in Ukraine....
RNLI rescues 17 fishermen
Red Bay and Larne RNLI rescued 17 Spanish fishermen after their 35m trawler got into difficulty 11 miles east...
Fishing trawler captain distracted by WhatsApp in fatal incident
The skipper of a fishing trawler which sank another boat, killing three anglers, was distracted by his WhatsApp messages,...