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We’re recruiting for a number of volunteer positions at our station and fundraising team, in time for the busy summer season. You can help save lives at sea without getting wet, in these shore-based roles. Please read each description, including…Read more

Exmouth RNLI will be holding a ‘Boat & Watersport’ Jumble Sale at the Lifeboat Station in Queens Drive, Exmouth between 9am – 12 noon on Sunday 7th April 2019. Cost is £10 for your own stall or donations may be…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched at 7.11pm on 25 February, following a call to the Coastguard from two ladies stranded on a sandbank in the river Exe, with an incoming tide. Searching near Exmouth railway station with heat-seeking equipment,…Read more

The First & Last Pub in Church Street, Exmouth is donating 50 pence from each pint of it’s own brew – Checkstone Ale – during the Six Nations Rugby Tournament, to the Exmouth RNLI. The campaign is the brainchild of…Read more

Exmouth’s inshore lifeboat launched at 2.24pm on 6 February to assist Exmouth and Beer Coastguard Rescue teams on Rodney Bay beach. A 73 year old man needed medical assistance at a location inaccessible by ambulance.   Three Exmouth RNLI Crew volunteers…Read more

Veteran long distance runner and Exmouth RNLI volunteer, Des White will be running this year’s London Marathon in aid of the local charity. Des has recently qualified as a Tour Guide at the station and is looking forward to raising…Read more

Exmouth’s D class inshore lifeboat launched at 4.14pm on 23 December, following a 999 call concerning a dog fallen into the water at Red Rock, Dawlish Warren. Within six minutes Crew volunteers were on scene. In a notable swell, rising…Read more

As guests were arriving for lifeboat carols at station on 21 December, Exmouth’s inshore lifeboat was tasked following the transmission of a weak Mayday call for help, somewhere in west Lyme Bay. The D class lifeboat launched at 5.39pm and…Read more

Both Exmouth’s Shannon class and D class lifeboats were tasked at 8.05pm on 8 November, following a call to the Coastguard from a man concerned for his welfare, in the river Exe. The man had just rowed to his anchored…Read more