WELCOME TO POOLE LIFEBOAT STATION WEBSITE
Poole Lifeboat Station is one of over 230 lifeboat stations around the coast of the UK and RoI. It is part of the RNLI and provides a search and rescue service for Poole Harbour and Poole Bay in Dorset.
We are one of the busiest lifeboat stations in the UK and RoI, with our volunteer lifeboat crews launching on average three times each week. In 2010, the lifeboats launched 148 times, and in 2009 they launched 200 times.
This website is maintained by lifeboat station personnel and volunteers and includes details of the lifeboats, recent launches, the crew, forthcoming events and station history. We hope you enjoy your visit!
Latest launch
Date: 12/1/12
Lifeboat: ILB
Casualty: Cries for help heard
Location: Holes Bay, Poole Harbour
Summary:
A member of the public heard cries for help as they were walking along the Holes Bay Road so telephoned the lifeboat station to let us know.
The Mechanic then called the Coastguard to inform them and the pagers called the ILB crew to the station at 1228.
Within a very short time, the ILB crew were on scene to a 9m yacht that had gone aground outside of the main channel coming out of Cobbs Quay – another incident where the two people onboard had misjudged the low spring tide.
A crew member was put onboard to assist with rigging a tow and the yacht was then towed to deeper water.
The yacht and occupants then continued on their journey and the crew returned to station at 1255.
News
Entry period extended for sealed bid auction –
23 January 2012
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The decision has been made to delay the sealed bid auction for a unique curved glass plate to give more prospective bidders the opportunity to hear about the auction and get involved.
The auction will now be held on Saturday 5 May at Poole Lifeboat Station, when the station will be open from 10am until midday giving you the chance to view the plate before the auction takes place.
All existing bids will be retained and entered into the auction then alongside any new bids.
Please come along and take the opportunity to see this unique piece of glassware before you make your bid or before someone beats you to it!
We look forward to seeing you there or, if you are unable to attend, please click here for your chance to own it.
Poole crew member wins Seas category in Photographer of the Year competition –
9 January 2012
Rob Inett, Poole lifeboat crew member, has won the Seas category of the RNLI's Photographer of the Year competition.
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The competition aims to find pictures and footage that reflect the lifesaving work of the RNLI. Volunteers, crew and lifeguards send in pictures to compete in four categories; lifeboats, lifeguards, rescues and seas. An overall winner plus winners for the four categories are picked from the entries.
Eleanor Driscoll, RNLI Film and Image Manager and head judge of the competition, said: 'The standard was very high this year but Rob's picture really stood out. It's a great action shot and shows the rough, and sometimes difficult and dangerous conditions the RNLI volunteers are prepared to go out in to save others. It's fairly unusual to get a photo that captures the inside of the wheelhouse where the crew operate in safety during rough weather, which is why the photo is so special.'
For further details and other winners please see the press release.
Well done Rob and keep snapping!
Forthcoming events
Skip Or Sprint to the SOS events
– Friday 27 January 2012
This Friday sees the RNLI's biggest fundraising day, SOS Day, and there are several events in the area you can support:
See Our Scullers – a 24-hour 'rowathon' at Poole Lifeboat Station from 6pm Thursday 26 January to 6pm on Friday 27.
See Our Shoes – staff at HSBC in Poole will be wearing silly shoes.
Save Our Soles – pupils at Oakdale South Road Middle School will be will be wearing funky footwear for a donation as well as baking and selling yummy cakes.
Shell Out Silver – volunteers from Poole Lifeboat Station will be collecting and chatting to shoppers at Sainsbury's Pitwines on Friday and there will be a collection in the Dolphin Centre on Sunday 29 January.
Sing Our Songs – The Parkstone, Ashley Road, Parkstone are doing Sing Our Songs and Man the Pumps on Friday 27 from 7.30pm. Join Tammie and Steve for a fun evening.
Lilliput Sailing club is hosting a Scoff Our Spratts fest on Saturday 28 January. Tickets available.
Shimmy Or Shake Revue – an evening of Burlesque at the Blue Boar, Market Street, Poole from 7.30pm on Saturday 28 January; suggested donation £5, tickets available.
For more information on any of the events please contact Anne-Marie on 07887 855073 or log onto rnli.org.uk/sosday for more information, inspiration and ideas on how to get involved.
Swim in Our Speedos – Friday 27 January 2012
Dorset's RNLI lifeguards be stripping off for their traditional sea swim in aid of the charity's annual SOS Day 2012 on Friday 27 January.
The ice cold Swim in Our Speedos dip, which has become an annual event in the lifeguards calendar, will take place at midday on Boscombe beach where the RNLI lifeguards provide safety cover 365 days a year.
This year's RNLI SOS Day is raising funds towards the provision of new state-of-the-art lifejackets for the volunteer RNLI lifeboat crews at all 35 lifeboat stations in the south west, including Poole Lifeboat Station.
So please come along and support them!
Fundraising news
Reg raises £5,000 following circumnavigation of Great Britain – on a mobility scooter!
Back in August 2011 we reported on the remarkable 65-year-old Reg Marchant who, on his trusty mobility scooter, arrived at Poole Lifeboat Station after 4 months covering 5,500 miles, visiting 150 lifeboat stations and raising money for the RNLI and British Polio fellowship.
Now we can report that he has raised an amazing £5,000 for the RNLI after achieving his long-held ambition to circumnavigate Great Britain – on his mobility scooter!
Well done Reg and thank you.
For more information about his incredible feat, check out the press release.
Sealed bid auction for unique curved glass plate
Here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own an amazing piece of glass art – a curved glass plate, unique to Poole Lifeboat Station.
Engraved by Patricia Hilton-Robinson, an Associate Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers and a professional member of the Contemporary Glass Society, the 30cm-diameter clear lead crystal glass plate has six incredible images of the all-weather and inshore lifeboat (three of each), along with the crews' named welly boots and trousers, as they are shown in our kit room.
To learn more about this beautiful glass plate and for your chance to own it, please click here.
