Dorset lifeboats issue advice to summer paddleboarders
Both Poole and Mudeford RNLI crews had to help several paddleboarders in distress over the past weekend.
Both Poole and Mudeford RNLI crews had to help several paddleboarders in distress over the past weekend.
People in Poole commemorated the contribution made by the town to the evacuation of Dunkirk by the small boats in 1940.
Doreen Hogg, a staunch supporter of the RNLI had previously donated £1.5m to the RNLI to purchase a lifeboat.
RNLI Poole Lifeboat Station volunteers warmly welcomed the family of teenager Callum Baker-Osbourne who died in July 2021 saving his family.
Poole Lifeboat was launched on Sunday to a yacht fouled on a marker buoy in Studland Bay and one of the crew had to be evacuated.
Poole lifeboat’s longest serving operational volunteer, Jonathan Clark, has signed the RNLI 200th anniversary scroll on behalf of Poole Lifeboat Station.
Following a report of a person in the water off Hamworthy Park, Poole lifeboats were launched at 11.30pm on 3 August.
The busy period for Poole Lifeboat Station volunteers has continued with an unprecedented 24 hours taking this year’s callout figures to 63 launches.
As a token of thanks, volunteers at Poole Lifeboat Station have been awarded a special commemorative Platinum Jubilee medal.
The afternoon of Sunday 26 September turned out to be a hectic one for Poole lifeboat after it set out to a report of three paddle boarders who needed rescuing.