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LT. 0347 - 2.8 mts
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Latest Lifeboat Shout

Launched at 13.52 on Sunday 1st August to assist motor vessel Just Yum Yum with 4 persons onboard. The casuality was escorted to Dover Harbour. View the News Release

11-11-1891 RAOB with crew that went to the Aeolus & God of the Winds
24/08/2010 - Sir Richard Branson meets RNLI Dungeness crew
1895 RAOB on transporter carriage at Lydd
Dungeness RNLI Lifeboat Station
11 July 2010, Rad Hart-George and Nick Boviere stop of at Dungeness whilst embarking on a challenge to cycle round Britain and visit every RNLI station and raise money for the charity
Richard Branson's Mother with Dungeness Lifeboat Crew
RNLI Chief Executive, Paul Boissier visits Dungeness Lifeboat Station on 12 April 2010
Dungeness Lifeboat being recovered at low tide after a shout on 10th February 2010
Dungeness RNLI Lifeboat escorting Just Yum Yum into Dover Harbour on 1st August 2010 Photograph taken by Martin Collins, assistant Press Officer of Dover RNLI Lifeboat

Welcome to Dungeness RNLI Lifeboat Station Online

Dungeness Lifeboat Station in Kent guards the Channel from Folkestone to Rye Bay and today operates a Mersey class 'fast' carriage lifeboat Pride and Spirit which came to Dungeness in 1992, it was a generous gift from Eric and Jean Cass. Shore helpers are required to launch and recover the lifeboat, the station also had the country's last lady launchers.

In 1940 the Dungeness Lifeboat Charles Cooper Henderson was also one of 19 lifeboats that took part in the evacuation of forces from Dunkirk.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:51)

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RNLI Events in the East & S. East

Met Office Warnings and Advisories for London and the South East

Met Office Inshore Waters Forecast

The History Of The Dungeness Lifeboats
Booklet by Jeff Morris

The windswept promontory known as Dungeness, on the south coast of Kent, consists, mainly of shingle, as a result of which, the foreshore is constantly changing. The first lighthouse was bult near the point in 1615, the latest in 1961. There has been a Lifeboat Station at "Dungeness" since 1826, but, over the years, as a result of the ever changing coastline, some 12 different sites have been used for this Station, the present one only dating from 1977.

Last Updated (Sunday, 02 May 2010 17:20)

Dungeness RNLI Lifeboat Station