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Exmouth lifeboat station is recruiting additional visitor guides to join a small team of dedicated volunteers providing free tours for the public. The state-of-the-art boathouse on Queens Drive houses a Shannon class and a D class lifeboat. Tours take place…Read more

On 1 July, local emergency services were invited to Exmouth lifeboat station to take part in various scenarios, played by actors from Peninsula Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine team. The morning was organised by Crew volunteer and emergency doctor, Chris Marsh with…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched at 9.48pm on 29 June to reports that a 16-year-old girl had fallen off a cliff at Orcombe Point. Crew volunteers were on scene within eight minutes and found the casualty on a ledge,…Read more

On 25 June at 5.30pm, Exmouth’s inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched following a 999 call from four teenagers cut off by the tide between Orcombe Point and Sandy Bay. Crew volunteers were on scene within four minutes, recovered the…Read more

On 15 June at 10.45pm, Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn was tasked by the UK Coastguard after a sighting of a red flare, four to five miles north east from a vessel in Torbay. Crew volunteers searched for…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman II and Shannon class lifeboat R and J Welburn launched on the evening of 11 June following a 999 call to the Coastguard. The call was made from a member of the public who thought they…Read more

On 31 May at 1.25pm, Exmouth inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched to assist a man who had been at sea for two days and had become disorientated near Langstone Rock. The skipper of a local passenger boat company had…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched at 10.44am on 28 May after a family with three young children on board a RIB ran aground on Pole Sands, half a mile west of Exmouth lifeboat station. Crew volunteers were on scene…Read more

Inshore lifeboat George Bearman II launched at 6.57pm on 20 May following a call to the UK Coastguard concerning a yacht aground on Pole Sands, half a mile west of Exmouth lifeboat station. Crew volunteers were on scene within five…Read more