Tag archives for RNLI
Mayday! Mayday!
Every day, RNLI crews across the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands respond to Mayday calls – the most urgent calls for help on our coasts. But this May, they…
RNLI Hastings Toasts Long-serving Volunteer
RNLI Hastings Lifeboat Station is celebrating the retirement of a most valued volunteer, Arthur Miles, who steps down from active service at RNLI Hastings Lifeboat Station after more than 20…
Hastings Celebrates the RNLI
This is the RNLI’s 200th year of saving lives at sea – and the Hastings lifeboat station is taking part Photos: Kevin Boorman Until recently, ‘retired’ lifeboats Priscilla MacBean and…
Saving Lives at Sea The Hastings Lifeboat – and its Women
By David EP Dennis The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) crew is one of the most respected groups of professionals in Hastings. Along with the police, fire service and NHS…
You can all join in
Become a lifeguard Last year RNLI lifeguards, who cover 177 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, protected an estimated 20 million visitors. Now the charity wants to hear from…
Channel Crossings: 1,000 arrivals on a single day
Border Force statistics show that, despite the rhetoric of politicians on both sides of the English Channel, passages of small boats carrying migrants/refugees from Europe to the Kent and Sussex…
City of Sanctuary
In 2017 Hastings Borough Council resolved to become a City of Sanctuary in response to an initiative launched by a local community group Hastings Supports Refugees (HSR), which had been…
Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the…
The Perils Of Running A Pub
By Rod Webb Running a pub these days isn’t easy, what with the low price of take-away alcohol, the unsociable hours, finding good staff and attracting a regular flow of…
Spanish Flair At St Mary’s In The Castle
Ben Bruges reviews Hastings Sinfonia’s Fiesta, a Night of Passion. As Hastings Sinfonia finished with a triumphant major chord a tutti, conductor Derek Carden put down his baton; but was…
RNLI Honours Lost French Lifeboat Crew
The flags at Hasting Lifeboat station were lowered to half-mast last Friday (7th June), as a mark of respect to the three French lifeboat crew who died during last week’s…
Hastings Lifeboat Gets Its Name
By Richard Price On Saturday 27th April the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) named the new Shannon class lifeboat stationed at Hastings. The boat is now called the Richard and…
Welcome Home
Hundreds of people welcomed Hastings’ brand new all weather lifeboat which arrived at her new home on Saturday. Escorted by a flotilla of four RNLI boats, the new £ million…
Safer To Swim
Camber tragedies sparked RNLI lifeguard cover. Emma Harwood reports The Royal National Lifeguard Institution has been formally appointed by Hastings Borough Council to operate the Hastings beach lifeguard service for three…