RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at 1am this morning at the request of UK (Solent) Coastguard to investigate a report of a Red Flare that had been sighted 1 mile south of Ventnor.
HMS Middleton (a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel) was also in the area searching. Having found nothing after 2 hours, both vessels were released and the Alfred Albert Williams returned to Bembridge and was recovered by 3.15am. For two of the crew it was their first service.
RNLB 'Alfred Albert Williams' (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at around 10:00 this morning at the request of UK Coastguard to carry out a medivac from a 94m Spanish dredger ‘Costa la Luz’, anchored about 1/2 mile NE of the station.
RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at 1pm this afternoon at the request of UK Coastguard to assist a 12m Motor Boat with (it was thought) 3 people onboard that had hit the Bembridge Ledge and was under tow by a 5m RIB close to the Offshore Boathouse.
RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at around 4.45pm this afternoon at the request of UK (Solent) Coastguard to a possible medivac from No Mans Land Fort. An elderly guest had slipped and banged her head and chest.
RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at 6pm this evening to RV with MV Braemar which was leaving Southampton on her 'support the RNLI' cruise. Almost as soon as the Alfred Albert Williams had launched, she was tasked by UK (Solent) Coast Guard to investigate a report (by three different boats) of a 'grey object' in the water half way between Bembridge & Selsey.
RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at 2.25pm this afternoon after an unidentified object had been spotted roughly 250m to the North East of the Offshore Boathouse (in the vicinity of Cole Rock).
With less than 6 hours before Steve Simmonds retired after 15 years as Coxswain of Bembridge Lifeboat, RNLBAlfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was tasked (at 6.20pm) by UK (Solent) Coastguard to look for two Jet Skis thought to be somewhere between Bembridge and Hayling Island; apparently one had run out of fuel and was under tow by the other. A third Jet Ski had, in the meantime had gone off to try to get hold of some fuel and had last been seen in Wootton Creek.
Although something of a non-event, RNLB Alfred Albert Williams (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) launched at 15:15 following a request from UK Coastguard to assist a racing yacht that had been reported as having grounded on Bembridge Ledge.
A number of yachts in the vicinity of the Ledge were checked and having quickly concluded that none were in any trouble, the Alfred Albert Williams returned to the Boathouse and was recovered by 16:10.
