RNLI Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station

17/08/2026

VANDALISM in the HARBOUR
RNLI Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station
RNLI

The RNLI Pebble Memorial which took
a year to create was placed in the heart of the village to let people know about our courageous and valiant lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1928 endeavouring to Save Lives at Sea

All 17 perished and the village to this day remembers each and everyone of them

On visiting the Memorial today we were shocked and saddened to see it had been vandalised

Pebbles have been removed including one of the Lifeboat crew painting so carefully by a local artist Geri

Please if anyone has any information let us know
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Thank you

31/07/2026

28/05/2026

RNLI Rye Harbour story in Rye News

https://www.ryenews.org.uk/news/two-shouts-in-one-day

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25/05/2026

Busy day on Sunday 24th May for Rye Harbour RNLI station.

First shout at 0911 for an incident in the river.

Second shout at 1610 for a missing child at Camber. The boat conducted a shoreline search and nothing was found. Our colleagues from Romney Marsh Coastguard Rescue Team found the child safely ashore and Rye Harbour Lifeboat “Hello Herbie II” was stood down and returned to station for wash down and refuelling.

Mark Stephenson (LOM) commented “I cannot say how proud I am of all the crew at our station. They responded quickly and efficiently to two very different shouts and were a credit to themselves and the whole station”.

21/05/2026

HATS OFF TO HAIDEN
Each day he has been completing a mile to raise funds for the RNLI Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station
Tonight Martin and I accompanied him on the walk and no sooner had we started the walk Haiden received £25 donation from two groups of people
Thank you
Please help Haiden Debley-turner raise more funds by donating
Https://fundraisers/haidendebley-turner/mayday-mile

18/05/2026

We are recruiting.

26/04/2026

A video of St George's Civic Parade and Serice at and St Mary's Church Service St Mary's Church Rye
The RNLI crew were honoured to take part with their Standard

https://youtu.be/YcIhHdS6X3s

videography: Harbour Videography
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14/04/2026

Shout number 3 of 2026. On Monday 13 April at 2016 we received a tasking request from Solent Coastguard to a 33 feet motor vessel which had lost all power off Camber Sands.

At 2017 the crew were alerted via pager and quickly gathered at the station. A briefing took place and the lifeboat launched into the River Rother at 2034. They proceeded to the casualty vessel which had 2 pob. After assessing the situation, it was determined that the safest way to help would be to tow the casualty back to Rye Harbour. This was accomplished and after a thorough wash down of the lifeboat, tractor and trailer and a debriefing the crew left for home around 2300.

LOM, Mark Stephenson said “This was a textbook operation which all the hours of training our crews perform meant the operation could be completed successfully with no issues. I am proud of all our crew who give so much time to help save lives at sea. The 2 pob on board the vessel are safe and well.”