On Tuesday night, we were paged alongside Portsmouth Coastguard Rescue Team and Hill Head Coastguard Rescue Team to a report of a car in the water with a person inside by the slipway at the Hard. With the person involved reported safe and no further...
Our incidents don't always involve launching the Lifeboat. Today, whilst the crew were on station training, they were made aware of a casualty with a suspected broken arm near the station. Keeping the casualty warm with blankets, the crew administered Entonox gas to help manage...
It was a busy day for our crew today as they carried out a training exercise with the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 175 and responded to 2 incidents. At 11.48am the Coastguard asked the crew to respond to reports of a kitesurfer that had become detached from...
2021 has been the busiest year GAFIRS has seen for 11 years! With 117 Incidents ranging from towing broken vessels, searches for missing persons, fires, sinking vessels and serious medical incidents including cardiac arrests. Our team has worked hard throughout the year, donating over 11,000...
It's been a busy weekend for the crews with 3 incidents in the last 2 days. On Saturday, whilst out on patrol, the crew picked up a broken down vessel in Portsmouth Harbour and towed them back to Town Quay for repairs to be carried...
Four people were pulled from the water after their 15ft vessel sunk off Southsea. The vessel – a small ‘dory’ style boat – was swamped by a large wave and immediately sunk half a mile from South Parade Pier around 2.45pm on Bank Holiday Monday. All four people were...
At 5.30pm on Saturday 24th April Gosport Lifeboat was tasked as part of a multi agency response to a casualty in the water off Southsea. The crew launched within 6 minutes of the call and were on scene just 4 minutes later. With the Coastguard...
Gosport Lifeboat was tasked to assist three children in the water in Ryde Harbour today (Sunday, Nov 29). The youngsters had got into trouble after a 10-year-old boy fell into the water and two friends followed him in to assist. Gosport independent lifeboat, based at Stokes Bay,...
Since the start of the lockdown and the most restrictive measures in a generation, charities across the country have adapted to how they both serve their communities and also find new ways to keep themselves afloat. As reported previously, for the duration of the national lockdown and the six weeks...
Just before 6pm yesterday, lifeboat crews from Gosport and Hamble scrambled to a boat which was taking-on water and sinking rapidly between the Solent Forts and Ryde. The Lifeboat Crew from GAFIRS (Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service) based at Stokes Bay, were on scene...