Juan Twothree

Can highly recommend the breakfasts at the Ship Shape Cafe, in one of the arches along the road by the inner harbour.

The party at Walton and Frinton YC to mark the sad closure of Thames Coastguard was billed as the Over and Out Party.

One of the holds of the Richard Montgomery being loaded in the US

Absolutely correct.

Most of the time, the JRCC at Fareham receives the satellite alerts from the ground station, and then pings them off to the relevant...

That's incorrect. The satellite download gets picked up at Fareham, then gets passed to usually the JRCC, or occasionally Falmouth...

I based my original post on my 30+ years as a lifeboat crew. And I can only tell you what I've experienced. Sorry if that doesn't...

Much of what you've described takes very little time. A PLB/EPIRB gets a satellite fix within a couple of minutes (or at least the ones...

Yep, set everything off as quickly as possible, call everyone you can ASAP.

My experience has been that we get launched, and the enquiries then carry on in the background. Older devices relying on a satellite...

I'm guessing they paged Dover LB? An ALB is going to be nearer my ten minute estimate than five. I'd have sent Littlestone (Atlantic...

Yes, certainly for my station that includes crew coming from home, work or wherever, to the boat leaving the carriage. We were once...

Over my lifeboating career I've so far dealt with about 14 ( I think - may be a couple more) fatal incidents. In all but two of those...

Between five and ten minutes to launch, then whatever the transit time will be at 25 knots (or 35 for an Atlantic 85).

Set everything off, the CG, maligned as they are, will be PDQ on the case.