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Welcome to the
Hayling Island Lifeboat Station's
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The
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
is a registered charity that saves
lives at sea. It provides, on
call, the 24-hour year round service necessary
to cover search and rescue
requirements 100 miles out from the
coast of the United Kingdom and the
Republic of Ireland. |
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Hayling Island Lifeboat Station
is situated on the South East corner
of the Island, known locally as
Sandy Point. It overlooks the
entrance to Chichester Harbour which
enable quick access to the whole of
Chichester Harbour, the
harbour bar and the adjacent sands
and shingle banks which are known as
the East and West Pole Sands. The area of
Chichester Harbour is 22 sq miles
when the tide is in and 11 sq miles
when the tide is out. |
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The
station has two inshore lifeboats,
an Atlantic 85, B Class lifeboat "Derrick
Battle" and a D Class lifeboat
(IB1)
"Amanda, James & Ben". Both boats
are operational 24/7 all year round
and cover an area 15 nautical miles
from the lifeboat station. |
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The lifeboat station was
extended in 2007 in preparation
for the Atlantic 85 B
Class Lifeboat which
arrived on station in
February 2009.
The new extension
is a 19 metre by 11
metre boat hall and
upper storey alongside
the previous building.
The
accommodation in the
previous station has
been rearranged to
provide a dedicated
training and education
facility, a crew
changing room, male and
female toilets and a new RNLI
information centre.
Click
here to see a
picture gallery of the
new look station. |
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Hayling
Island Lifeboats Supporters Association |
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Click
here for more information.
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The page may
take a few moments to
download]. |
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Hayling
Island Lifeboat Station, Bracklesham
Road, Hayling Island, PO11 9SJ |
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For
EMERGENCIES Dial 999
and ask for COASTGUARD
Lifeboat
Station 023 9246 5641 (only when
manned Wed eves and Sun am)
Lifeboat Operations Manager Nigel
Roper 023 9246 2338 or Mobile 07956
660166
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operationsmanager@haylinglifeboats.org.uk |
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No RNLI
funds have been used to pay for this
website hosting. The funding of this
website for this year has been paid
for by the executors of the late Mrs
Ruby Carter who lived in Guildford.
Mrs Carter was a Shoreline Member
and followed the activities of the
Hayling Island lifeboats with a very
keen interest. |
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The
Hayling Island lifeboat crew would
like to thank Wargrave RNLI
Fundraising Branch for providing
funds to buy a digital water proof
camera for the station and also to
thank Bentley Walker Ltd, Hayling
Island for supplying the camera. The
camera is used for training and
publicity purposes. |
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This
website has been designed by the
Hayling Island Lifeboat Crew who
also manage and update the
information. |
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©
Copyright 2010 Hayling Island
Lifeboat Station |
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