RNLI Penlee Lifeboat
At 3.04am this morning, after receiving a tasking request from the Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre, both Penlee lifeboats launched from Newlyn to assist the Penzance Coastguard Rescue Team and officers from Devon & Cornwall Police to search for a person between Newlyn and St Michael’s Mount. Just as the ALB Ivan Ellen and the Inshore […]
At 11.42am this morning the volunteer crew of the Inshore lifeboat Mollie and Ivor Dent were again heading out of Newlyn harbour on another shout.Helm Ben Keogh, and crew members Andrew Wood and Max Rowe were tasked to launch by the Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre who had received reports of a small fishing vessel firing […]
At 12:21 pm today, 24 December 2020, the RNLI’s Penlee lifeboat ‘Ivan Ellen’ was dispatched to a paddle boarder by the Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre. The casualty, who was a few hundred yards from St. Michael’s Mount, had been blown in a southerly direction with a strong offshore wind of force 6 to 7.The man, […]
Yesterday evening (Monday 2 November), The Lizard all-weather lifeboat and Penlee Inshore lifeboat launched to reports of two people swept off the harbour wall into the water at Mullion Cove, making their way in rough sea conditions and strong winds. HM Coastguard helicopter and Coastguard rescue teams were also in attendance. The lifeboats stood by […]