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Exmouth RNLI Lifeboat Weekend
Announcing the events
Photographs credited to Exmouth RNLI :
Maer_Rocks_Live_15 – Maer Rocks : Town Mayor opens the event – L-R, Roger Bourgein, Town Crier; Ellie Walker, RNLI Community Fundraising Manager; Volunteer Crew Charlie Allen, Event Organiser and Exmouth Town Mayor Steve Gazzard.
Maer_Rocks_Live_12 – Maer Rocks : Crowds enjoy entertainment at the well supported event.
Maer_Rocks_Live_14 – Maer Rocks : Wall to wall music enjoyed by all
Maer_Rocks_Live_8 – Maer Rocks : RNLI Mascot, Stormy Stan, enjoys a selfie
Open_Day_Live_2 – Town Mayor Steve Gazzard launches the Open Day
Open_Day_Live_4 – Town Mayor Steve Gazzard and Town Crier Roger Bourgein meet RNLI volunteers at the event
Open_Day_Live_7 – The ‘Whats in the Welly’ competition at the Lifeboat Station
This year’s amazingly successful annual Exmouth Lifeboat Weekend took place last weekend, raising over £2000 for the life saving charity.
Arranmore RNLI bid fond farewell to crew member Fr Liam Boyle
Arranmore RNLI’s volunteer crew, family and friends gathered together in the lifeboat station for a barbecue yesterday (Sunday 18 August) to say farewell to crew member Fr Liam Boyle.
Charles Stanley donates to Exmouth RNLI
Photograph credited to John Thorogood / Exmouth RNLI
Chris presents his cheque to Exmouth RNLI. L to R : Simon Davidson, Chair – Exmouth Lifeboat Management Group, Charles Harris-Deane, Director of Investment Management at Charles Stanley Wealth Management and Robin Humphreys, Chair – Exmouth RNLI Fundraising Team.
Exeter based Charles Stanley Wealth Management Group have donated £1,000 to Exmouth RNLI.
VEHICLE WITH TWO PERSONS AND DOG CUT OFF ON HOLY ISLAND CAUSEWAY
Above are archive images covering incidents over several years that are depressingly similar. Holy Island and other locations are connected to the coast or river banks by causeways that flood twice a day. There is no mystery about tidal conditions and near these locations there are always shops and RNLI Lifeboat Stations where current tide tables and advice is available. Even with tide tables there are those who fail to appreciate that tide times change predictably approximately one hour later each day.
It is very difficult to know what else can be done to avoid vehicles and hikers becoming stranded on a flooding causeway. In the case of the Holy Island causeway there are now large electronic warning signs. Short of adding railroad-style level crossing gates at each end there is nothing more that could possibly be done and level crossing experiences show that some people will find a way round closed gates or just drive straight through them.
The best advice is to ask locals and buy tide tables before attempting to use a tidal causeway. Understand how long it will take to drive or walk across the causeway. Take a mobile phone or radiotelephone in case an accident or vehicle failure strands you. If you are stranded, Holy Island causeway has sanctuaries, huts on stilts above high water mark. Go directly to the closest sanctuary and await help. Make sure that someone not in your party knows you will make the crossing and expect to arrive safely at an estimated time.
Understand also that the RNLI Lifeboat Station at Seahouses, and its flank stations, will respond to a call from the Coastguard in virtually all conditions. They are volunteers who will risk their lives to save you. Understand also that conditions along the British coasts can change very rapidly as shown above where the Seahouses RIB crew responds to a stranded vehicle in calm, but often misty conditions, and the Seahouses All Weather Lifeboat is responding to a call for help in even more challenging conditions. Also understand that a vehicle inundated by sea water may be a total write-off, as will most of its contents.
Why not check with the Lifeboat Station for crossing advice and make a generous donation to help them continue to provide vital aid (they depend entirely on donations from the public and are not funded from the public purse)?….. SARN Ed.
Seahouses RNLI Inshore Lifeboat was requested to launch by UK Coastguard at 2.50pm on Wednesday 14 August 2019, to go to the assistance of two persons and a dog, in a car cut off by the tide on Holy Island Causeway, at the Holy Island side.
REQUEST TO TRANSPORT AMBULANCE CREW TO HOLY ISLAND.
At 15:27hr on Tuesday 13 August 2019, Seahouses Lifeboat was requested to convey an ambulance crew to Holy Island, to treat a female with abdominal pain. The causeway was closed by the tide.
Exmouth Inshore Lifeboat launched to rescue two in water
At 13:26 hrs today Friday 9 August 2019 Exmouth’s Inshore Lifeboat, George Bearman II was alerted by HM Coastguard following a report by a member of the public that two individuals had capsized in a dingy and appeared in difficulty on the River Exe.
Exmouth All Weather Lifeboat called to assist disabled Yacht
Photographs credited Exmouth RNLI :
Rescue_6_8_19_launch = Exmouth RNLI All Weather Lifeboat launches to assist the
disabled yacht
Rescue_6_8_19_retrieve = Exmouth RNLI All Weather Lifeboat assists the disabled yacht
At 11:27am today Tuesday 6 August 2019 the crew of Exmouth RNLI All Weather Lifeboat R & J Welburn were tasked by Solent Coastguard to attend a report of a disabled yacht.
Exmouth Lifeboat supporter donates £500 for her 90th birthday
Photograph credited Geoff Searle Myrt Clark_1 : Myrt arrives at Exmouth Lifeboat Station
Exmouth RNLI Lifeboat Supporter Myrt CLARK recently donated £500 to the local charity in lieu of presents for her 90th birthday this July.
Exmouth RNLI Lifeboat rescues two trapped by tide
On the evening of Friday 2 August 2019 the crew of Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat George Bearman II rescued two teenagers trapped by the tide on rocks at Orcombe Point, Exmouth.