All Visits to Dungeness Lifeboat Station are Free of Charge
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Would you be interested in joining our volunteer crew at Dungeness RNLI?

We are looking for people who live preferably within 3 miles of our station and must have good availability. Full RNLI training will be given!

If you are interested and want to know more then please telephone our boathouse on 01797 320317 and speak to our LOM (Lifeboat Operations Manager) Roger or to our Coxswain Stuart.

Photograph taken by LPO (Lifeboat Press Officer) Judith Richardson - 9 July 2017

Dungeness Lifeboat Station in Kent guards the Channel from Folkestone to Rye Bay and was the first to receive the RNLI Shannon class lifeboat. The Morrell was named on 31 May 2014 by HRH The Princess Royal.

The station has a rich history, in 1940, the Dungeness lifeboat was one of 19 that took part in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk in northern France. Through the 1950s the station was famous for its Lady Launchers - local women who helped haul the lifeboat down to the sea, and recover her.