The RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) filmed a personal message and sent us a beautiful, framed award to celebrate NSRI's 50th anniversary. The RNLI has been a close friend all these years, sharing their wealth of knowledge and expertise. | NSRI

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

29th January is RNLI SOS Day, marking and raising awareness of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s mission – dating back to 1824 – to prevent drowning through rescue, education, and coastal safety initiatives. This clip is taken from a silent film made by the Northumberland County Fire Brigade in around 1968, as part of an exercise carried out with the RNLI off the North East coast. | Yorkshire Film Archive & North East Film Archive | Facebook

We are proud to announce that we have partnered with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), together, supporting the RNLI’s aim of helping to prevent drowning. We will supply cleaning equipment to every one of the RNLI’s 238 lifeboat stations around the UK and Ireland. To launch the partnership together we created large-scale clean art to display a vital lifesaving message to remind the public to ‘Float To Live’ if they find themselves in difficulty in the water. Using high-pressure cle

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