Pumpkins are seasonal, but saving lives at sea is all year round 🎃🌊 [Visual Description: Compilation of big waves crashing, and then crew on a lifeboat amongst big waves. A lifeboat is expertly manoeuvred across big waves and to the tractor. Text reads: The sea can be really scary... We can handle it though, thanks to you.] #RNLI #Halloween #Lifeboats #Waves #SavingLivesAtSea | RNLI

6.4K views · 469 reactions | Welcome onboard for three fantastic dog rescues  If you missed any of these in the latest series of #SavingLivesAtSea, don't forget you can catch up over on BBC iPlayer if you're in the UK! #RNLI #Lifeboats #SeaRescues #RNLIRescues #DogsOfFacebook #SearchAndRescue #EmergencyServices #SaveEveryone | RNLI | Facebook

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Were you wondering how the Shannon class from RNLI Hastings Lifeboat Station managed to recover so quickly from the knockdown we all saw in Storm Ciara? We caught up with Senior Naval Architect, Ed Davies, on the science behind this lifesaving feature. | RNLI

Today marks the 249th birthday of Sir William Hillary, the founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. In 1823 Sir William made an impassioned appeal to the nation, calling for a service dedicated to saving lives at sea, and in 1824 the RNLI was founded. | RNLI

Fraserburgh RNLI Night Exercise with Viper1 Helicopter Fraserburgh Lifeboat had a night training exercise with Viper1 Helicopter on Thursday evening and in the fading light and approaching darkness they went through their paces in sight of Kinnaird Head on Thursday 18th September 2025. RNLI Volunteers Billy McIntyre and Chay Cumming were winched aboard the helicopter from the lifeboat, and Chay and Stephen Brown and Adam Duthie got some fantastic footage from the lifeboat. | RNLI Fraserburgh Lif

Helicopter training with the RNLI