The Canadian Coast Guard has taken delivery of a new search and rescue (SAR) boat built by shipyard Chantier Naval Forillon based in Quebec. CCGS Baie des Chaleurs is named after Chaleurs Bay, the portion of the Gulf of St Lawrence that sits between Quebec and New Brunswick. The newbuild belongs to...
Two people are confirmed dead after a harbour tug capsized and sank off the town of Greenock in Scotland’s Inverclyde council area on Friday, February 24. Biter, a ..
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The BBC reports that 147 passengers and crew were safely evacuated after a Ro-Pax ferry suffered an onboard fire as it was approaching its final destination of the town o ..
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UK consortium, including engineering company MAHLE Powertrain and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has launched a project to develop sustainable propulsion solutions for retrofit to high-performance marine vessels where batteries and other electrified technologies may not prove practical.
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Three fishermen have gone missing and are feared to have died after their vessel and a Ro-Ro vessel collided in St Ouen’s Bay off Jersey on Thursday, December 8. Th ..
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The Canadian Coast Guard has formally welcomed a new locally-built search and rescue (SAR) boat into service for operation in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean just off Ne ..
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The Royal Navy reports that one of its warships rescued four people from a yacht that was taking on water and at risk of sinking in the English Channel late last week. Th ..
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Personnel from HM Coastguard and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) at Mumbles in southern Wales responded to an incident involving a pleasure craft that caug ..
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The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said in a recently published report that the detonation of ordnance lying on the seabed off Norfolk had left a local cr ..
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The year 2021 saw a record-breaking 28,381 irregular migrants (IM) cross the English Channel from the French coast to England using small boats. An unknown number are lik ..
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