Crew Paged: 22:26pm Solent Coastguard requested the Atlantic 85 to launch to assist a 23ft Yacht that had broken tow and required a tow. Once on scene the crew established a tow and towed the vessel into Haslar Marina. Once safely alongside Solent Coastguard stood the crew down to return to station at 00:10am
Crew Paged: 15:38pm Portsmouth’s Atlantic 85 was requested to launch to reports of an unmanned dinghy in the vicinity of Spitbank Fort. The crew arrived on scene and found the drifting vessel, It was decided that a search would be carried out to make sure that no one was in the water, On further inspection […]
Crew Paged: 08:50am Solent Coastguard requested Portsmouth’s Atlantic 85 launch to reports of a capsized dinghy that was taking on water. Once arriving on scene it was apparent that they had managed to get the dinghy back up again and it was being towed by a jet ski back into Langstone Harbour. The Lifeboat then […]
Crew Paged: 21:24pm Solent Coastguard requested the crew to launch to search for a missing vulnerable person, As the crew were responding to the station Solent Coastguard stood us down as the missing person had been found shore side. Cancel page received: 21:32pm
While the Atlantic 85 was on routine training exercises in the Solent area, Solent Coastguard requested that the Atlantic divert at 12:00pm to assist a 18ft Sports fisher vessel that had suffered engine failure. While on route to the casualties reported position it was established that they weren’t in the specified area so the crew used our direction […]
Crew Paged: 20:05pm Solent Coastguard requested the ILB to launch to reports of people cut off by the tide on the Winner Bank, While the crew were heading down to the Lifeboat Station the crew received a stand down page to their pagers as the people cut off by the tide had safely made it […]
Crew Paged 02:08am Early morning callout for our crew! The Atlantic 85 was requested to launch to reports of someone under South Parade Pier, The crew made best speed round to the pier and immediately commenced searching in and around the pier. The first informant was a member of staff on the pier and they […]
Crew Paged: 21:18pm Solent Coastguard paged the crew for the 3rd time today to a broken down vessel round by South Parade Pier. The Atlantic 85 launched to find that a Police Launch was already on scene next to the vessel. Due to the size of the casualty vessel it was decided that our Atlantic […]
Crew Paged: 1730pm Solent Coastguard for the second time today paged the crew to launch the Atlantic 85 to reports of 2 kids in the water down by the Pyramids Swimming Centre, The Atlantic 85 launched with her crew of 4 and made their way around to the Pyramids. While on route to the location […]
Crew Paged: 15:10pm Solent Coastguard requested the D Class to launch to reports of a capsized sailing dinghy with 2 people in the water approximately 1.5 nautical miles south of Langstone Harbour entrance. The D Class launched with a crew of 3 and made best speed to the scene, On arrival the D Class found […]