Saving Lives.....

Everytime we get ‘paged’, we go………

Operational Update

Due to planned maintenance on the ALB 13-03 R & J Welburn, access to view the names will be restricted on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14th and 15th April 2026

Training is scheduled for Wednesday evening, during which the lifeboat will be launched. However, as a planned inspection of the Shannon Launch and Recovery System is taking place on Thursday and Friday, the boat will not be recovered after training on Wednesday night.

Instead, the lifeboat will remain on the mooring from Thursday, April 16th 2026 until further notice

Proudly serving Exmouth, and the wider community

When someone dials 999 and the Coastguard determines that a lifeboat is needed, they contact our station’s Launch Authority. If the launch is approved, our volunteer crew are paged and immediately drop everything to respond. This is what we call a ‘shout.’

We’ve compiled a list of all the lifeboat shouts so far this year, with as much detail as currently available. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order, so the most recent shout appears first.

Some reports are more detailed than others, and we’ll update them should more information become available.

 

To keep things clear and easy to browse, each shout includes:

  • The date of the launch
  • A report of the incident
  • A photo of the lifeboat involved

The final number represents the times we were paged but did not launch (DNL).
This can happen for a variety of reasons — for example, if a potential casualty self-recovers. In these cases, our crew still arrive at the station, but are stood down before either of our lifeboats are launched.​

2026

ALB

ILB

TOTAL

DNL

Launch History from 2011

Year ALB ILB Total DNL
2025 20 53 73 23
2024 27 79 106
2023 32 78 110
2022 25 62 87
2021 18 45 63
2020 27 52 79
2019 15 63 78
2018 13 60 73
2017 14 67 81
2016 13 60 73
2015 12 45 57
2014 16 57 73
2013 7 58 65
2012 15 45 60
2011 14 57 71