Exmouth lifeboat shop have hit an all time record, taking over £15,000 in August 2015. Shop volunteers are over the moon at their record-breaking takings, the best they have achieved ever. The weather may not have been kind in August, but the public have flocked to...
A superb 87 Minis left Weymouth at 10.30am for the Classic Jurassic Mini Club's Mouth 2 Mouth rally en-route to Exmouth lifeboat station. This is the fifth year they have visited the station, and one of the busiest and largest Classic Jurassic events to date. The sun...
Exmouth RNLI fundraising team and crew volunteers celebrated a successful open day on 22 August. The lifeboat station opened its doors and welcomed supporters and visitors to tour the lifeboat station and the Shannon class lifeboat, R and J Welburn, and raised a...
Both Exmouth lifeboats launched on bank holiday Monday, 31 August at 2.15pm to search for a broken down speedboat in Lyme Bay with three men on board. The casualties from Bristol called HM Coastguard Maritime Operations Centre using a mobile phone after they found...
Inshore lifeboat George Bearman launched at 4.14pm on 17 July to assist a jet-ski shuttle with six people aboard, reported to be in danger of sinking, off Orcombe Point. South Devon RNLI lifeguards had responded to the call for help by alerting Solent Coastguard, who...
Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn launched at 12.29pm on 15 July to a 27’ motor cruiser in difficulty 2.2 miles south of the lifeboat station. The vessel had become entangled with a pot buoy and couldn’t move. 48 visiting schoolchildren from Exminster Primary...
On 12 July, over one hundred supporters joined volunteers at Exmouth lifeboat station to celebrate those who save lives, work and live by the sea. Exmouth RNLI Chaplain, Reverend James Hutchings led the service. At least 100 people attended the 40 minute service,...
At 11.20am on 7 July, inshore D class lifeboat George Bearman and all-weather Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn were tasked to assist a local fishing trawler taking on water in Exmouth estuary. The inshore lifeboat launched first at 11.20am and was on scene...
Exmouth RNLI volunteers launched inshore lifeboat George Bearman at 6.41pm on 2 July following a call to the lifeboat station. A six metre powerboat had broken down and was drifting towards the rocks at Straight Point. Kevin Riley, Lifeboat Operations Manager...
Inshore D class lifeboat George Bearman launched at 10.35pm on 1 July following a call to the Coastguard concerning a fishing boat being swept out to sea in the dark, 1.5 miles from the mouth of the river Exe. The 999 call was made by a concerned member of the...
Both the Exmouth RNLI Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn and D class lifeboat George Bearman were called out to rescue casualties on two separate occasions in the river Exe on 25 June. At 1.30am, inshore lifeboat George Bearman launched to a report of a man stuck...
Both Exmouth lifeboats launched on the afternoon of 22 May to reports of a woman who had fallen overboard from a 21 foot leisure fishing motor boat, two miles south east of the lifeboat station. Exmouth inshore lifeboat George Bearman launched at 4.20pm in calm...
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Young men who had been plucked from the water by crew volunteers after their power boat started sinking, attended the naming ceremony of the lifeboat that helped rescue them, on 9 May at Exmouth lifeboat station. Crew volunteers had been paged to a report of three...
Exactly one year after the state-of-the-art Shannon class lifeboat arrived at Exmouth lifeboat station, R and J Welburn was officially named by the charity’s Chairman on Saturday 9 May. After the early morning rain had stopped and the Exmouth Shanty Men had...