royal national lifeboat insitute
In the UK, the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) simply call their boats lifeboats. The RNLI is a charity, unfunded by Government and manned mainly by volunteers from the local community. Modern lifeboats are designed to be self-righting should they be swamped and capsized.
Their website says "more than 139,000 lives saved since 1824 when the RNLI was formed. The total will be higher than that because there were a lot of lifeboats operating before that date.
The RNLI is funded by voluntary donations.
I think you mean RNLI and Grace Darling. The RNLI is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and Grace Darling was a young woman who helped rescue several people in a wreck in 1838.
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william hilary
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james lawson
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All RNLI 'staff' are volunteers. They are usually employed in other businesses, but carry pagers so they can be summoned at a moments notice in the event of an incident.
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