Category: Articles
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Beacon primary school pupils receive prizes from Exmouth RNLI in return for fundraising
Volunteers from Exmouth lifeboat station awarded winners of a colouring competition during their weekly achievement worship. 30 year one pupils were given sheets to colour in at the end of their visit to the boathouse on 4 October. The visit included an hour-long tour of the two Exmouth lifeboats: the all-weather lifeboat Margaret Jean, the…
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Exmouth RNLI’s new senior volunteer receives award for donating over 75 pints of blood
Exmouth’s new Deputy Launching Authority, Brian Abbott has received an award for donating over 75 pints of blood in his lifetime. The retired motorbike engineer who once worked with Barry Sheen throughout the 1970s, turned from racing bikes to yachts. Joining the RNLI in May, he is now helping save lives in two different ways.…
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Windy weather sees Exmouth RNLI launch to four men thrown into the sea after their boat flips over.
Exmouth RNLI were tasked by Brixham Coastguards at 4.29pm on Sunday 23 October, after members of the public witnessed a seven metre rigid inflatable boat (RIB) with four persons on board, flip over at the sandbar in Exmouth. The casualties…
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Baby Molly gets her sea legs on board the Exmouth RNLI all-weather lifeboat.
On Saturday September 24 at 1.30pm, 7 month old Molly India Stott was baptised on board the all-weather lifeboat Margaret Jean watched by proud father Roy Stott and wife Alice. Family and friends gathered on the lifeboat for the ceremony,…
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Exeter Pirates collect pieces of gold for Exmouth RNLI
A group of pirate enthusiasts went on the rampage on Monday 19 September, fundraising for the RNLI. This was the third Exeter Pirate Day, held appropriately on International Pirate Day. Organiser of the event, Cap’in Queeg, AKA Mexie Mex, (real name Curt Nicol), had been planning the event for nearly a year through posters, a…
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Exmouth RNLI take part in a great mini adventure
On Sunday 18 September, the Jurassic Coast Mini Club were greeted by volunteers of Exmouth RNLI at the boathouse. 70 minis took part in the 2011 “Classic Jurassic” Mouth2Mouth rally between Weymouth and Exmouth to raise money for the RNLI. The sight of the colourful cars brightened up a somewhat drizzly and overcast day, as…
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31 people rescued by Exmouth RNLI when fishing charter breaks down.
On Wednesday 24th August, twenty eight passengers and three crew on board a 54 foot angling boat were stuck at sea when the boat suffered engine failure.
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Exmouth RNLI marks retirement of volunteer
Exmouth RNLI lifeboat station marked the occasion of one of their volunteer retiring with a BBQ and presentation at the boathouse on Friday 5 August 2011. Volunteer Don Hodgkinson has stepped down after 10 years as a Deputy Launching Authority.…
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Exmouth RNLI called out in the night to distressed man on boat, 6 ½ miles out to sea in Lyme Bay.
Brixham Coastguards tasked Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew on Sunday 10th July at 9.28pm – after reports of a distressed man in a Dory boat being hostile with a passing yacht crew. The American crew on a 72ft yacht reported that the man had initially flagged them down but when they pulled alongside him, he became…
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Kite Surfer Call-Out
Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew were tasked at 8.40pm on Sunday 11th June, to a kite surfer who had become entangled in his ropes. Brixham Coastguard received two calls from concerned members of the public that had witnessed the man in difficulties.
