The given coordinates will take you to the launching ramp at Exmouth Lifeboat Station (which, incidentally, has been built wide enough to allow both lifeboats to be launched at the same time)
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Assume N50 36 W003 23
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The first lifeboat was stationed in Exmouth in 1803 after local people raised the funds for its purchase with the help of Lloyds of London. A boathouse was built near the estuary, but this was washed away in a storm in 1814.
In 1858 a new boathouse was built near the beach, although the lifeboat had to be taken across the road before it could be launched. This boathouse was demolished and a new one built on the same site in 1903 to accommodate a larger lifeboat. The first motor lifeboat at Exmouth arrived in 1933 and a tractor was used to speed up movement across the road and beach for launches.
From 1961 the lifeboat was kept afloat in the river near the entrance to Exmouth docks and a boarding boat was used to ferry the crew out to the lifeboat. The old lifeboat station by the beach was retained as a fund-raising display centre and, from 1966, was the base for an inshore lifeboat.
In 2005 trials were made to consider whether it would be possible to return the all-weather boat to the beach boathouse where it would not be hampered by shallow water in the river when it was needed at low tide. As a result of this it was decided to build a new boathouse further along the beach near Maer Rocks, from where both the All Weather Lifeboat and the Inshore Lifeboat could operate at all states of the tide.
The current boathouse became fully-operational on 21st November 2009 and was built using funds from a major appeal and some significant legacies. A number of environmentally-friendly designs have been incorporated into the building, including photovoltaic cell panels, geothermal heating, sustainable cedar, highly energy-efficient glass, and a large quantity of rain water is harvested from the roof, which is used to wash the boats.
The Lifeboat station has a visitor viewing gallery above the fund-raising gift shop, and regularly has open days for the public to look around and bookable guided tours most weekends
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