Tag archives for Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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…
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…