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Sailors from the frigate HMS Lancaster and offshore patrol ship HMS Severn struggled in dark, freezing conditions to plug a hole in the damaged hull of the Christos XXII and pump out tonnes of water to prevent it sinking. They fought against the in-rushing English Channel, hammering wooden wedges into a foot-long gap caused when the vessel the tug was towing crashed into it shortly after 2100hrs on Sunday, 13 January, off Hope’s Nose, near Torbay.
Sailors from the frigate HMS Lancaster and offshore patrol ship HMS Severn struggled in dark, freezing conditions to plug a hole in the damaged hull of the Christos XXII and pump out tonnes of water to prevent it sinking.
York Minster provided the venue for a recent RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) simulated casualty evacuation exercise.
Whilst Team GB were setting records at the London Olympics, the RAF Search and Rescue team of ‘C’ Flight, 22 Squadron, based at RAF Valley, reached their own milestone on ‘Olympic Super Saturday’ by completing the Flight’s 9,000th rescue.
A yachtsman overcome by stormy weather in the Atlantic has been rescued by the Royal Navy’s Cornwall-based Search and Rescue squadron.
In atrocious weather and after three aborted landings a Royal Navy Search and Rescue crew from HMS Gannet came to the aid of a newborn baby.
An RAF Search and Rescue crew was scrambled on Monday evening to assist a young woman who had plunged from a ferry into the North Sea. Report by Lorraine McBride.
A Search and Rescue (SAR) team from 771 Naval Air Squadron at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose recently assisted a farmer by lifting his stranded steer off Cornish cliffs.
An RAF Sea King Search and Rescue crew went to the assistance this week of a 53-year-old man and his dog who had fallen down a cliff.