My name is Norman Eastmead, I’m ex RAF, and I served on the Air-sea rescue side of the Royal Air Force. At the outbreak of the war, I had just left the naval training school, which I had joined ...

Between 1940 and 1943, the air-sea rescue craft operating from Malta rescued 123 downed Allied airmen, 34 German and 212 Italian aircrew. During the war, I served in the RAF Marine Branch.

The former RAF air/sea rescue craft is being restored to its original condition at Felixstowe Ferry – and now looks just as it did when in service during the early 1940s.

Prince William has undertaken his first air-sea rescue mission with the RAF in an offshore operation off Cumbria to help a stricken oil-rig worker. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

The handover marked the end of more than 74 years of continuous SAR air operations by the RAF in the UK, which since 1983 completed 34,025 callouts and rescued 26,853 persons in distress.

Once part of the RAF’s Air Sea Rescue service, the 63-foot “whaleback” rescue boat, believed to be the last of its kind, was discovered half-sunk in the Norfolk Broads. Named for their appearance, ...

An RAF air-sea rescue flight was based at Exeter later in the war, ... Nearby RAF Roborough was taken over by the Air Ministry for Royal Air Force use in 1942, ...

What better way to put the RAF Air Sea Rescue service on the map, than restoring a whaleback for future generations? “In the background we have managed to raise some £4,000 from public donations.

A coroner has opened an investigation following the death of an RAF veteran who died from a rare and aggressive cancer. Steven Merrett, a retired Air Sea Rescue marine engineer, died at the James ...

Memories of D-Day in RAF Air-Sea rescue. Norman Eastmead. Edited transcript of a video interview . D Day, I was based mostly on the South Coast of England, various places, depending where the ...