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We at St Helens Marine Rescue are privileged to escort another princess of the seas to St Helens. This time it is Heartsease (pronounced Hart Seas), a vessel built in 1897 in New Zealand. ‘Heartsease’ is named after  a New Zealand wild flower. It is 47 feet long with an enormous mast. Skipper Peter is delighted to […]

Barway Rescue

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On Saturday 2 February 2013 a crew from St Helens Marine Rescue, coordinated by Sergeant Bidgood of the Tasmania Police Marine and Rescue Services, St Helens, rescued three fishermen when their vessel was overwhelmed by a large breaking wave on the St Helens barway. A fourth person was able to swim ashore and raise the […]

The dredging at Pelican point has commenced and we can look forward to an improved channel. Please take care while the dredging is in progress.

It has once again been been a busy summer for the St Helens Marine Rescue Association. Our radio logs show that during this period we: logged 3,012 radio transmissions on VHF logged 262 radio transmissions on UHF Channel 94 provided assistance and tracking to a total of 793 vessels, carrying a total of 2,245 persons […]

FOUR crew of the scallop fishing vessel Anmaropa were rescued and taken to St Helens today. The Anmaropa was loaded with scallops and overturned on the St Helens barway in heavy seas. The Anmanaropa requested an escort across the barway at 8AM this morning and our rescue vessel Break O’Day was on its way to […]