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NEWS FROM THE RNLI LIFEBOAT TEAM IN DARTMOUTH


IT’S OFFICIAL. WE SHALL BE GETTING A NEW LIFEBOAT IN DARTMOUTH. The rNLI Dart inshore lifeboat D 702, ‘spirit of the Dart,’ will be replaced in may 2019 by D 838. Our present boat came on station in July 2008 and was funded by Caterfood (south West) Ltd. Currently (2016 figures) she has responded to around 300 requests for help, rescued 230 people and saved 10 lives. The new lifeboat will be built at the rNLI Inshore


Lifeboat Centre in east Cowes. The ILC builds, services and repairs all the D and b class lifeboats in the rNLI. It now takes five weeks to produce a new D class and fourteen are built a year. Forty are refitted and modified and around twenty a year are brought in for repair. D class lifeboats are refitted every two or three years and replaced every ten years, depending on usage and the environment that a particular boat has been working on. For a longer article on the work of the ILC please use the link to the August 2015 issue of Dart D’Tales on our website.


RNLI DART RECEIVES AMAZING SUPPORT FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY mitch Tonks and the diners in his Dartmouth rockfish seafood restaurant have just donated an amazing £14,181 to the rNLI Dart lifeboat. This sum alone will cover 40% of the current year’s overall operational running costs of the station. rockfish has been open in Dartmouth for six years and the building is next door


to the more recently opened RNLI Dartmouth Visitor Centre on the South Embankment. The diners are asked if they would like to add £1 to their bill for the charity and he then supplements this; the proceeds go straight to rNLI Dart. Copies of the local station magazine, Dart D’Tales, are available for customers to read and learn more about the volunteers they have chosen to support. mitch has specified that £2,000 of the donation will be specifically set aside to help develop a new local rNLI Dart station web site, www.dartlifeboat.org.uk. by this November the station will have been operational for ten years and the website is the place to find the history of the station, both past and current. Details of every one of the launches, currently around 300, can be found there, along with photos and sometimes video taken during the rescue. If you have any com- ments to make about the present site or features that you would like to see on the new one, please use the contact us facility to let us know. The other rockfish restaurants are in brixham,


Torquay, plymouth and most recently exmouth. All of them support charities which benefit the local commu- nities. The Plymouth restaurant currently supports the local sustainability studies at the Plymouth Aquarium. Other charities supported by the chain include: the Torbay Holiday Helpers Network, the pride in brixham volunteers and the exmouth beach rescue Club, a voluntary community lifeguard and lifesaving club.


Mitch Tonks with Jake Moores outside Rockfish


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