An Edinburgh lifeboat was launched on Saturday afternoon following reports of a sailing boat in distress on the Firth of ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood are understood to have raised concerns to this effect.

The Lough Derg RNLI was tasked this afternoon to assist a lone skipper whose 28ft motor cruiser ran aground in Rossmore Bay ...

At 4:20pm Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat Jean Spier launched with volunteers Steve Smyth, Owen Cavanagh and James Corballis on board. The wind was south-southeast, strong breeze Force 6 to moderate gale ...

Lifeboat volunteers at Hunstanton RNLI were sent to help the wing foiler just before 6pm on Thursday. The station's inshore lifeboat Spirit of West Norfolk was launched in just over 10 minutes, ...

He became known as “the keeper of the loch”, such was his great love of the world famous water body. Gordon Menzies on board ...

A fast‑moving and dramatic rescue took place in Cornwall this week when a powerful rip current swept multiple swimmers into danger during the ...

Lewisco and her crew subsequently returned to station but with the boat and crew in a somewhat muddy condition, so along with the tractor and launching carriage the shore crew had quite a task in ...

Allan and Heather Thornhill, from Smallfield, are close to having visited all 238 RNLI stations.

A lifeboat station will remain closed after "unexpected issues" caused a delay to repair work. The RNLI had hoped its station ...

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