Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017
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Feature
Update 12 June 2017
News from RNLI Dart and wider news from the RNLI will now appear in a two page spread in the locally produced magazine By the Dart. The next issue will be published at the end of June. By The Dart is published in March, May, July, August, October & December.The magazine is distributed by hand to all homes in Dartmouth & Kingswear and is also available for pick up from The Flavel, Royal Castle Hotel, Natwest Bank and many hotels, cafés, restaurants, marinas, supermarkets, village shops & pubs etc in/around Dartmouth. Between 5,000 and 6,000 copies are distributed depending on season. Back issues can be viewed online. News updates from the station will be sent by email to those who “Opt in” to receive them and will continue to appear on this site, although in a reduced form.
Latest News
Date: Wed 31 May 2017
News update
Photographer: John Fenton Dart Lifeboat Press Officer
RNLI Visitor Centre volunteers became honorary members of the RNLI Flood Relief team.There are three members of the RNLI Dart lifeboat crew who are also members of the RNLI South Division Flood Rescue team but when Jo and Harry Escott called into the Visitor Centre on the South Embankment at 9am on Tuesday 23 May they quickly had to develop flood rescue skills of their own. They found the Centre was flooded with water cascading down from the ceiling and soaking the stock. John Butler, another of the Visitor Centre volunteers, came to join them and established that the leak...
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Latest Launch
Date: Sat 24 Jun 2017
Casualty in the water at Dittisham
Location: Blackness Marine, Dittisham, River Dart
Photographer: Crispin Brabner RNLI lifeboat crew
The Coastguard signalled an immediate launch to a man in the water.A 57 year old from Dartmouth fell into the water as he was boarding his RIB which was alongside the slip at Blackness Marine.He was in the water for 15 minutes before he was helped from the water.Fortunately he was wearing his lifejacket.He was being put in a car when the inshore lifeboat crew arrived.
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Dart D'Tales
Dart D'Tales, our regular Newsletter can be found: here.
Dart RNLI - What's on |
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| Sat 15 Jul | |
| Brittania R N Volunteer Band Concert At: St Saviours Church Dartmouth "Music for a Summer's Evening" 35 musicians will be will be entertaining us with a programme in aid of RNLI Dart. .. Read more > |
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| Thu 27 Jul | |
| RNLI Dart Fete At: Royal Avenue Gardens, Dartmouth Musical entertainment and the very successful stalls as usual. .. Read more > |
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| Fri 4 Aug | |
| RNLI Dart Flag Day At: Dartmouth Our volunteers will be out in Dartmouth. .. Read more > |
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The Weather in Dartmouth:
Wednesday - 12:00 BST: Heavy Rain, 14°C (57°F)
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2651498
Tide Times & Heights for Dartmouth on 28th June 2017
03:40 - Low Tide (0.45m)
10:17 - High Tide (4.61m)
15:58 - Low Tide (0.70m)
22:25 - High Tide (4.77m)
(Times are UTC/GMT. For BST add 1 hour)
From: https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/dartmouth-tide-times