HM Coastguard tasked our ALB, R and J Welburn, to locate and support a yacht reported overdue at Torquay.   The yacht was quickly located and the ALB was stood down and returned to its wet mooring      

At 09.52hrs our ILB was tasked by H.M. Coastguard following a call from NCI Exmouth. Their watchkeepers had been observing a kitesurfer who appeared to be struggling in a heavy swell off the beach at Exmouth. Our ILB was launched, reached the casualty and ensured that...

Both boats were on exercise when the ALB was flagged down by a trimaran in difficulties. Our ALB crew assessed the situation and decided that the safest course of action was to tow the boat to a temporary mooring so that the problems could be dealt with. Having...

At 20.59hrs our ILB was launched in response to a request from H.M. Coastguard in response to a report of a boat adrift in the river near Belsher’s slip.          

At around 21.10hrs, there were reports of two paddleboarders in difficulty at Budleigh Salterton. Exmouth Coastguard team were already on scene when both our ILB and our ALB arrived. Our crew rescued one of the casualties who was stationary and hanging on to a buoy....

Whilst on exercise in the River Exe on Wednesday,12 August 2026, both our inshore D-Class lifeboat, George Bearman II, and our all weather lifeboat, R & J Welburn, were diverted by H.M. Coastguard to reports of 3 swimmers struggling in the falling tide  by the NCI...

Volunteers of Exmouth RNLI heard their the pagers sounding on Tuesday 11 August at 22:20hrs to reports from H.M. Coastguard of 2 boats aground on Bull Hill sand bank in the River Exe.  Our inshore, D- class lifeboat, George Bearman II, was quickly launched into a...