Swanage RNLI

Welcome To Swanage Lifeboat Station.

An RNLI Lifeboat Station saving lives off the Dorset Coast since 1875.

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Crewed by volunteers.

Our volunteer crew come from all walks of life.

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Two lifeboats Provide 24/7 cover.

A Shannon class all weather lifeboat and a D Class inshore lifeboat

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The RNLI is a national charity.

The RNLI has over 235 lifeboat stations around the coast of the UK and Ireland.

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Our live webcam, click below to see how Swanage Bay looks today.

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Lifeboat week 2021 runs from 13-22 August. More details are on the lifeboat week mini site.

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The Swanage D-class inshore lifeboat (ILB) was requested to investigate a diver’s surface marker buoy (SMB) that was reported having been seen near Peveril Ledge with no dive boat or other activity in its vicinity.

The ILB launched and was very quickly on scene where another vessel had recovered the SMB with nothing attached and no bubbles or other signs seen. The ILB was asked to perform an expanding square search of the area. While the search was being carried out, a fisheries patrol vessel arrived at the scene and was able to also search with its ROV –

Check out our statistics

Our statistics and map pages record all our launches for the year

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Saving lives since

Lives saved to date

Rescues in 2020

Volunteer crew

Meet the crew

Our crew are come from all walks of life.

We currently have 30 sea going and 4 shore based volunteers. Here's a random selection, click the button below to see them all.

Darren Tomes

Position :
ILB Senior Helmsman & ALB crew

Date Joined :
January 2008

Darren Bird

Position :
ALB & ILB Crew + ILB Mechanic

Date Joined :
October 2009

Martin Steeden

Position :
Deputy Launching Authority

Date Joined :
July 2020

Ben Jarvis

Position :
ALB & ILB Crew

Date Joined :
September 2017

Colin Marks

Position :
Deputy Launching Authority

Date Joined :
January 1993

Alan Parmenter