The RNLI had stationed a lifeboat at Brixham, the boathouse was built at the Ladies Bathing Cove and was equipped with a motor lifeboat which is shipboard designed to provide emergency escape.
Brixham was equipped with a motor lifeboat in 1922 which could cover a larger sea area in more extreme conditions. Torquay Lifeboat Station was the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Torquay, Devon in England from 1876 until 1923. 
