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On 29 November, students from Clyst Vale Community College visited Exmouth lifeboat station to hand over a cheque for £491.51 to volunteers following a successful annual fundraising event in memory of World War 1 hero, Harry Patch. Students throughout the…Read more

Crew volunteers from Exmouth RNLI were called out twice within 24 hours on 6 November. On Friday 4 November, the same 12 volunteers had helped Exmouth Round Table with a bucket collection at the annual town’s Fireworks display. Inshore lifeboat…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman launched at 7pm on 11 October to a man in the water, discovered by off-duty Exmouth Beach Rescue volunteers, as daylight was fading.  Crew volunteers were on scene, 300m south of the lifeboat station within five…Read more

For the third year running a local business, Antonio’s Ice Cream Parlour, in Exmouth has generously donated the sales from their two competition winning ice creams to Exmouth RNLI. Since Antonio’s opened their doors three years ago they have held…Read more

Exmouth Lifeboat station once again hosted the annual Mouth2Mouth Mini Rally, over 50 splendid mini’s in all shapes and sizes gathered at Exmouth Lifeboat station travelling from Weymouth and parking on the lifeboat ramp.  Exmouth Lifeboat station was delighted to…Read more

On 7 September, Photographer Jack Lowe visited Exmouth lifeboat station to record the 21st century boathouse, Shannon class lifeboat and Crew volunteers with a Victorian camera. Jack plans to visit all 237 RNLI lifeboat stations in Britain and Ireland, photographing…Read more

At 3.11pm on Sunday 11 September, inshore lifeboat George Bearman was tasked to assist a yacht with two adults and its rescue boat with four children and one adult on board, both aground in the Exe estuary. The 22 foot…Read more

Three former casualties saved by Exmouth RNLI volunteers are actively promoting the charity’s Respect The Water campaign to prevent drowning incidents occurring. Their rescue on 12 April, 2015 changed their lives and Jared Colclough, Richard Smith and Dan Morton are…Read more

During the evening of 31 August, Exmouth’s inshore lifeboat George Bearman was tasked twice by Solent Coastguard. Whilst on an inshore lifeboat exercise, volunteers were tasked to a 24′ sailing boat drifting upstream, 150m off Lympstone.  The Crew were on…Read more

At lunchtime on 24 August, inshore lifeboat George Bearman and Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn were tasked by the Coastguard to search the river Exe for a possible missing person. A member of the public had contacted the…Read more