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Welcome to Poole lifeboat station's website
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| SOS DAY JANUARY 29 2010 Support Our Station |
| Poole RNLI Lifeboat crews take an early bath ! |
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Unveiling of RNLI memorial. |
A proud and emotional day … and a lightning launch |
Check it out |
Poole lifeboat station has an active sea safety team headed up by Lifeboat Sea Safety Officer Chris Holloway. Part of their brief is to carry out SEA Checks and talks on sea safety to individuals and clubs, providing advice on man overboard techniques, lifejackets, flares and many other safety topics.
If you are a boat owner and would like a SEA Check with a free independent check of safety equipment, an opportunity to discuss safety matters, your copy of the check form (which may attract further benefits) along with the benefit of knowing you are helping the RNLI in its core activity of saving lives at sea, then please contact Chris Holloway on 077 1286 8115.
Remember these RNLI safety tips every time you venture out on the water:
• check your engine and fuel
• tell others where you are going
• carry some means of calling for help
• keep an eye on weather and tides.
Further information and advice on all aspects of sea safety can be obtained by calling the RNLI on 0800 328 0600, emailing seasafety@rnli.org.uk, or visiting the website at rnli.org.uk/seasafety.
| Planning to go out to sea? |
Understanding the Weather is one of the most important aspects of going out on the Sea, be well prepared and use the wealth of resources available on the Internet to help plan your trip.
Here's just a couple of useful links with weather information:-
The
Met Office
RealTime
Weather in Poole Harbour
To ensure boat owners don't make an unscheduled appearance in our "Shouts" section Coxswain Jonathan Clark would like to remind them of a few simple checks before putting to sea Read More.
Hero Worship |
Here at the station we get tons of requests from journalist students to come out on an exercise and experience what it is like to be a crew member on one of the busiest lifeboats. Unfortunately we cannot say yes to everyone but we did say yes to Alana Lewis. Alana joined the crew on an exercise one Saturday morning with typical wet, wild lifeboat weather but she lived to tell the tale! Read her story here.
The Tyne Project |
We have another update from Christian on his progress building a model of our Tyne class lifeboat. You'll see from the recent photographs and prior updates that an incredible amount of time goes into recreating the City of Sheffield with such detail and accuracy.
Poole rescue read by over 200,000 members |
Poole lifeboat station recently featured in the Spring 2008 edition of the Lifeboat, the RNLI’s quarterly magazine for its members. Read the article or you can download a pdf version page 1, page 2.
Check out the main RNLI website at rnli.org.uk for more details of membership.
Have you been introduced to the crew yet ? |
Read about some of the colourful characters that
make up the crew
here at Poole Lifeboat Station. Visit the crew pages by clicking
the link above or by using the navigation bar at the top of the
page.
Become
a virtual RNLI lifeboat |
The RNLI are encouraging the public to show their support by downloading a new virtual ‘lifeboat launch alerter’ from www.rnli.org.uk/pager.
People can become ‘virtual crew members’ from the comfort of their own homes or workplace by logging on and registering their details to receive a free ‘pager’ that displays on their computer desktop when a lifeboat is launched. Follow this link for details
| Postcards |

We have a new selection of postcards on sale at
35p each, printed by the RNLI print room so all proceeds go to fund
our station. Email us at ‘Contact us’ if you wish to
buy any.
Poole lifeboat pin badges, sweatshirts and polo shirts are also
available.
Familiar faces |
Volunteers |
If anyone is interested in volunteering either for the crew or for any other aspect , click on the picture above for details.
2010 launches (24 February) |
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| 5 ILB |
1 ALB |
2010 |
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22 Feb |
1147 Both the all-weather (ALB) and inshore
lifeboat (ILB) launched following a report of a body in the
water off Flaghead Chine. The ILB arrived on scene first to
find that the body was ashore with ambulance crew, police
and coastguard rescue officers in attendance. No further involvement
was required from the ILB and ALB so they both returned to
station at 1225. This was the first call out of the year for
the all-weather lifeboat crew
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19 Feb |
1249 Following a report from a member of the
public of a capsized kayak off North Haven Yacht Club and
concern that there may be persons missing, the inshore lifeboat
was launched to investigate. Once on scene, the crew found
the vessel to be a section of hull from a catamaran. They
dragged it ashore and handed it over to a Coastguard Unit
and then returned to station at 1334.
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24 Jan |
2200 The crew were paged on Sunday evening
at 2200, following a report of a woman in the water off Flaghead
Chine. The inshore lifeboat crew were tasked initially to
search inside the harbour while the Coastguard helicopter
searched outside in Poole Bay. |
14 Jan |
1220 The ILB launched following a report to
a person in the water off Flag Head Chine from St Ann’s
Hospital. As the crew reached the entrance to the harbour,
a further report came in informing them that the woman had
been recovered from the water by hospital staff and there
was no need for them to continue. The crew returned to station
at 1245. |
9 Jan |
1500 The first call out of 2010 for the inshore
lifeboat crew occurred in near freezing conditions. In a NNE
wind, gusting force 5, with the air temperature at 0.5ºC,
a kayaker had called the Coastguard, reporting that he had
capsized and was struggling to get back to Hamworthy. The
ILB crew, suitably kitted in layers of thermal clothing, launched
and found the kayaker with his kayak off Patchins Point. He
had fortunately already changed into a dry set of clothing
that he had with him. The lifeboat crew took him to Lake Pier
before returning to station at 1550. |
Summaries of earlier
call outs in 2010 can be found here |
Prior years' launches |
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| 1990 | 128 |
| 1991 | 111 |
| 1992 | 131 |
| 1993 | 181 |
| 1994 | 184 |
| 1995 | 232
a vintage year |
| 1996 | 188 |
| 1997 | 167 |
| 1998 | 170 |
| 1999 | 142 |
| 2000 | 112 |
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2001 |
193
including a dramatic rescue
near the chain ferry, |
| 2002 | 158 |
| 2003 | |
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| 2009 | |
History of the station |
Would you like to find out more about the station's history? Read More
In 2001, Meridian TV made a documentary
called 'Lifeboat', featuring the work of Poole lifeboat station.
Watch the trailer in
Real Media format >>> High
/ Low
or Windows Media >>> High
/ Low
(with permission of the copyright owners)