RNLI Walmer Lifeboat

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🛟 Below are the tide times for Deal for the next 7 days in BST.🧭 Remember: Always check local tide times before you pla...
31/08/2026

🛟 Below are the tide times for Deal for the next 7 days in BST.

🧭 Remember: Always check local tide times before you plan a coastal walk.

⛵️ Remember: Different states of tide will affect the sea in different ways.

🛟 REMINDER 🛟🌧 Open Day Cancelled 🌧Sadly due to the forecast weather we have taken the decision to cancel this years open...
29/08/2026

🛟 REMINDER 🛟

🌧 Open Day Cancelled 🌧

Sadly due to the forecast weather we have taken the decision to cancel this years open day.

It just wouldn't have been possible to run it as a full event as planned.

Thanks to all those who had planned to attend for your continued support.

🌧 Open Day Cancelled 🌧Sadly due to the forecast weather this Saturday we have taken the decision to cancel this years op...
27/08/2026

🌧 Open Day Cancelled 🌧

Sadly due to the forecast weather this Saturday we have taken the decision to cancel this years open day.

It just wouldn't have been possible to run it as a full event as planned.

Thanks to all those who had planned to attend for your continued support.

⚓️ Throwback Thursday ⚓️This week we share a photograph that appeared in the Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury newspaper o...
27/08/2026

⚓️ Throwback Thursday ⚓️

This week we share a photograph that appeared in the Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury newspaper on 14th January 1933, which shows a group of men, who were all volunteers at the North Deal lifeboat station.

Details about the photograph state that it was taken in 1892, when various lifeboats were being tested at Lowestoft. The volunteers, all from Deal, went as they were involved in a competition, and came second. In the photograph are Richard Roberts, Edward Hanger, Harry Norris, Frank Adams, Tom Cribben, Jack May, Jack Finnis, John Marsh, Ernest Dean, Frank Roberts, Tom Adams, William Cribben, Robert Redsull, Richard Riley, and Henry Marsh.

📍 Colin Varrall

🛟On their return from the training exercise on Sunday, three Walmer volunteers, Luke, Ben and Stuart were greeted by Jes...
25/08/2026

🛟On their return from the training exercise on Sunday, three Walmer volunteers, Luke, Ben and Stuart were greeted by Jessica, one of the paddleboarders they had assisted last Thursday, and who wished to come to the station to personally speak to the crew.

👏She thanked them, and the Coastguard volunteers for their time, expertise and patience, saying what could have been a frightening experience for her and her brother safe, calm and somehow good fun!

📷Walmer RNLI

🎉 1 week to go 🎉This time next week our annual station open day will be about to start! The latest addition to the day:🛟...
22/08/2026

🎉 1 week to go 🎉

This time next week our annual station open day will be about to start!

The latest addition to the day:

🛟 Perry's Ford Dover test drive event. For every vehicle test driven on the day £30 will be donated to the RNLI.

There will be plenty to see and do so come down and join in the fun between 10am and 3pm.

Activities include:

🛟 Meet the crew
🛟 Look at our lifeboats
🛟 Visit the lifeboat shop
🛟 Meet other local emergency services
🛟 Wet sponge stocks
🛟 Welly throwing
🛟 Face Painting
🛟 Dottie boards.
🛟 Sea safety and lifejacket clinic stand.
🛟 Lots of other children's activities
🛟 Cake and refreshments stall

As a finale to the day at 2pm we will also be taking part in a live display with our boats and Dover and Ramsgate Lifeboats.

📍All emergency services and display are subject to operational commitments.

📟Tasking 35. Volunteers on the station’s D Class lifeboat Duggie Rodbard II launched at 6.53pm yesterday evening followi...
21/08/2026

📟Tasking 35. Volunteers on the station’s D Class lifeboat Duggie Rodbard II launched at 6.53pm yesterday evening following a request from HM Coastguard to two paddleboarders reportedly in difficulty off Walmer Castle.

🩺On arrival the crew carried out a brief health check to confirm there were no injuries.

🛟After taking the casualties and their paddleboards on to the lifeboat, they were taken back to the slipway near Kingsdown where, due to sea conditions, it was decided that it would be safer to beach the lifeboat and the two were handed into the care of the Deal and Langdon Coastguard Rescue teams.

⚓️The boat was recovered at station by dedicated shore crew at 7.23pm where it was washed down and made ready for service.

📷 Walmer RNLI

⚓️ Throwback Thursday ⚓️This week we see the end of an era. The last of the Goodwin light vessels, which have warned mar...
20/08/2026

⚓️ Throwback Thursday ⚓️

This week we see the end of an era.

The last of the Goodwin light vessels, which have warned mariners of the dangers of the Goodwin Sands has been retired from service by Trinity House. On Sunday 16th August 2026, the East Goodwin light vessel was towed away from its position on the east side of the Goodwin Sands, by the Trinity House vessel Patricia and is presently being kept at Harwich. The East Goodwin LV will now be replaced with a Cardinal marker.

Light vessels have been situated around the Goodwin Sands for 231 years, since a light vessel was first positioned at the north end of the Sands in 1795. The first East Goodwin Sands light vessel was placed in position in 1874.

The third image showing a view the East Goodwin light vessel and the Patricia has been used with the kind permission of Jeff Welch - J W Shipping Photography.

📍Colin Varrall

⚾️ Yesterday evening saw the second match in our August Tuesday evening rounders game's.⛵️ The opposition this time comi...
19/08/2026

⚾️ Yesterday evening saw the second match in our August Tuesday evening rounders game's.

⛵️ The opposition this time coming in the form of a team (small army) of our colleagues from the coastguard.

😬 Unfortunately we seem to have lost the scoresheet so we thought a draw would be the fairest outcome....... alright then after all the years of trying the coastguard finally pulled off a narrow victory and beat us by 1/2 a rounder. Seems like the 52 weeks of practise paid off!

👌 Thanks to the players from the coastguard for attending and we will see you all again for a rematch next year.

Next up a team from "Downs Sailing Club"

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Walmer Lifeboat Station, The Strand
Deal
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