Record-breaking sailor Dee Caffari will officially launch the new Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS) lifeboat tomorrow. The naming ceremony will take place at Gosport Lifeboat Station at Stokes Bay, Gosport at 2pm on Saturday, June 18. GAFIRS patron Dee Caffari will be joined by the...
Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service had a busy Bank Holiday weekend of rescues – topped off by a training exercise with the Coastguard’s helicopter. Gosport Independent lifeboat crews were launched three times to assist vessels in distress over the weekend, then helped Coastguard 104 –...
A man with a serious head injury was rescued from a yacht in The Solent on Saturday (May 21) after an urgent Pan Pan distress call was made. Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS) was mobilised by UK Coastguard to assist the injured sailor who...
Rescuers plucked two people out of the water on Sunday when their fishing vessel sank in the Solent. Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service and Calshot Lifeboat were tasked by UK Coastguard to reports of a sinking boat off Titchfield Haven at 11am on Sunday morning. Calshot...
Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service was called into action three times on Sunday (April 10) to assist vessels in distress. The independent lifeboat, based at Stokes Bay, Gosport, was first tasked by UK Coastguard to assist a 26ft vessel drifting in Portchester Creek, at around...
Three yachts, a RIB and a speedboat were all rescued by Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service after they got into trouble in choppy Solent waters this weekend. One yacht was saved from crashing into Haslar Sea Wall, Gosport, after losing all power and steering off...
A woman was evacuated from a fort in the Solent this morning by Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service after she developed breathing difficulties. Gosport’s voluntary lifeboat crew was paged by UK Coastguard at 0330 and a crew of seven – including two medics – rushed...
Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service was called into action on Saturday (March 12) to help a stricken vessel that had become trapped on a buoy in the Solent. The yacht – which had four people on board – had fouled its keel on the buoys...
Rescuers were paged by UK Coastguard on Sunday (May 8) evening to reports of two youths in difficulties in the water. The pair – aged between 14 and 16 – had been spotted clinging to a piece of wood in Fareham Creek, behind Fleetlands, by a...
Emergency services were called into action on Sunday, February 7, to reports of a missing child in the water in Gosport. Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS) was launched into force eight seas by UK Coastguard at around 10.40am and joined the search in Workshouse...