The all-weather lifeboat (ALB) Fredrick William Plaxton launched at 10.35pm on Tuesday night (January 14) to assist HM Coastguard to search for the cause of the red flare, which had been ...

Southbourne Coastguard received a report of a red flare sighting at Hurst Castle. Crews supported Lymington Coastguard Rescue Team to search for a distressed vessel or person in extreme weather ...

An RNLI lifeboat was dispatched from Oban on Tuesday night after a powerful head torch was mistaken for a distress flare. The Coastguard had issued a "Pan Pan" emergency alert to all vessels in ...

27 and 28, the guard said in a statement Monday. “Spent flare casings were located on Willard Beach, but no other signs of distress were found,” the guard said. All told, the three false ...