by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | Jun 26, 2018 | Articles
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 three boys and one girl and...
by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | Jun 17, 2018 | Articles
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 nearly five hours, approximately three miles offshore...
by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | Jun 12, 2018 | Articles
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 had seen a person in the water, waving their arm in...
by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | May 31, 2018 | Articles
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 heard the Pan Pan call for help for assistance...
by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | May 29, 2018 | Articles
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 within ten minutes, discovered their boat...
by ian_taylor@rnli.org.uk | May 22, 2018 | Articles
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 minutes, as fog was rolling in. They...
