Two of Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew members will be taking part in the Exmouth RNLI MayDay Mile ’72 for 72’ event – a 72 kilometre charity relay on Saturday 15 May 2021.
A mayday call is the most urgent plea RNLI lifesavers receive, and is used when life is in immediate danger. Usually our lifesavers answer calls for help. But today, with a busy summer on the horizon, it's they who need YOUR help.
The RNLI are expecting more families than ever to book holidays in the UK and Ireland this year. People are excited to get away – and that’s how it should be. But it’s so easy...
Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew members launched their inshore lifeboat this morning following a 999 call reporting a kitesurfer in difficulty off the East Devon shoreline.
At 11.38am today Thursday 15 April 2021 Exmouth RNLI inshore lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II was launched having been tasked by H.M. Coastguard to a report of a kitesurfer struggling and apparently in difficulty. He was sighted between Sandy Bay and Budleigh Beach.
The lifeboat was commandeered by Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew, Scott Ranft, Sarah Beresford and Henry Mock. Shore crew were Neil Cannon, Andy...
Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew members launched today to rescue two paddleboarders needing help in the sea off the Exmouth coastline.
At 2.22pm today Tuesday 30 March 2021 the Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II was tasked by H.M. Coastguard to a report of two female paddleboarders who had become distressed some distance from the shore and found themselves unable to make progress.
The lifeboat, crewed by Helm, Guy Munnings, and RNLI volunteer crew Mark Cockman and Ed Steele launched at 2.35pm and was able to quickly locate the first casualty by the green...
Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew members launched their inshore lifeboat yesterday evening following a number of 999 calls reporting a windsurfer in difficulty on the River Exe.
At 6.14pm yesterday Saturday 27 March 2021 Exmouth RNLI inshore lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II was launched having been tasked by H.M. Coastguard to a report of a male windsurfer apparently in difficulty and unable to make progress. He was last reported on the River Exe between the River Exe Café and Lower Halsdon Farm, Exmouth.
The lifeboat was commanded by Helm, Guy Munnings and volunteer lifeboat...
RNLI lifeguard Kate Berridge rescued a nine-year-old boy who’d been swept off the sand bar in the River Exe yesterday afternoon (8 August). The boy who was with his brother couldn’t swim and was under the water when Kate pulled him out.
Kate was doing a routine patrol along the left hand side of the beach when she saw the boy disappear off the end of the sand bar, which is exposed in the middle of the river at low tide.
Kate says: "I immediately grabbed a rescue tube and dolphin-dived though the shallow water between the beach and the sand bar before swimming the 20 to 30...
The biggest event on the Exmouth Lifeboat Fundraising Team’s calendar, the lifeboat station Open Day will take place on Sunday 18 August this year. Situated on Queens Drive, the event will be held between 10am and 4pm.
Dedicated volunteers are currently busy organising stalls, raffle prizes and making produce to sell in order to raise money towards the launch and recovery vehicle appeal. As the new Shannon-class lifeboat is due early next year, this will be an opportunity to raise a large chunk of the £90,000 remainder needed for the vehicle.
Volunteer Deputy Launching Authority, Dave Ashman has raised £605.89 for Exmouth RNLI’s latest appeal. Dave took part in the Eddystone Pursuit sailing event on 13 July, off the Plymouth coast.
The fundraising total consisted of £400.18 sponsorship and £205.71 prize money from the annual competition. The Eddystone Pursuit was set up in 2002 by Julia Creeke, in memory of her Mother to generate money for worthy causes. This year, the competition raised £63,471 for 35 charities.
In his Trapper 300, named Sun Trapper , Dave joined two other boats: Ficato and Sixpence to make up...
Crew volunteers from Exmouth RNLI were called to the aid of a yacht, two speed boats and a missing kite surfer on Sunday 28 July. Relief Coxswain Matt Simpson from Ilfracombe RNLI led the yacht rescue in Lyme Bay.
At 2.05pm, Brixham coastguard initially tasked the inshore lifeboat to the aid of Misty, a yacht in difficulty one and a half miles off Maer Rocks. The all-weather lifeboat, Margaret Jean stood by in heavy rain and force five/six wind conditions whilst the inshore lifeboat, George Bearman attempted to reach the casualty.
Crew volunteers rescued a novice kitesurfer from Exmouth’s ‘duckpond’ in the rising tide on 25 July. Later that afternoon, the inshore lifeboat was tasked to rescue two people in the water after their trimaran capsized near the marina.
Brixham coastguard tasked the inshore lifeboat George Bearman at 9.34am, responding to an emergency call to a kitesurfer in difficulties in the Exe estuary. Crew volunteers Scott Ranft, Roy Stott and Guy Munnings located the casualty, a man from Exeter, within five minutes of launching.
The man was in the ‘duckpond’, an area of the estuary...
Crew volunteers from Exmouth RNLI were called out three times within four hours on the afternoon of 24 July. A pregnant lady, a sinking speed boat and a missing boat adrift in the river Exe all encountered the rapidly rising flood tide.
Brixham coastguard tasked the inshore lifeboat George Bearman at 3.48pm to rescue two people stranded by Langstone Rock at Dawlish. A pregnant woman and man from the Exeter area had been walking along the beach when they had found themselves cut off by the rapidly rising spring tide. Three crew volunteers launched within four minutes, located the...
