On 21 November 2009 both lifeboats were transferred to a new lifeboat station on Queen's Drive at the eastern end of the beach. Within the building is a sign from the now-demolished Volunteer Inn once run by Will Carder. On Christmas Day 1956 he was swept overboard and drowned during a mission on the "Maria Noble" to save the crew of the Dutch ship MV "Minerva" 4 miles south east of Orcombe Point. It is regarded as the worst tragedy in the history of Exmouth RNLI.