28 years ago this week, the prototype for our Severn class lifeboat performed its first ever rescue - whilst out on sea trials. The Severn class lifeboat joined our lifeboat fleet in 1995 and since then has launched over 15,700 times, and aided over 41,100 people. The Severn Class lifeboat is still saving lives around our coast to this day. | RNLI

3.2K views · 259 reactions | Get a hovercraft-eye view of a rescue. Take a look at what our incredible hovercraft crews see when they're rescuing a casualty, and what the rescuees see when safely on board. The greatest view of all is that of the orange hovercraft coming to the rescue! In the last twenty years, over 1200 people have seen just that.  #OneCrew #RNLI #Hovercraft #HovercraftWeek #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeek #MightyMachines #RNLIRescues | RNLI | Facebook

On this day in 1899, one of the RNLI's most arduous rescues took place in Lynmouth when conditions prevented the crew from launching their lifeboat. But Coxswain Jack Crocombe refused to give up and came up with a valiant plan to haul the lifeboat over 13 gruelling miles to launch... | RNLI

781K views · 9.1K reactions | Inside this lifeboat, lives have been saved  Climb aboard and look inside Scarborough Lifeboat Station's water-jet powered Shannon class. From high tech controls to suspension seating, every detail is designed for efficiency, safety, and saving lives. [Video description: A guided visual tour inside an RNLI Shannon class all-weather lifeboat.] #RNLI #Lifeboats #Tour #SearchAndRescue #InsideLook #Technology | RNLI | Facebook

512K views · 6.5K reactions | The Shannon Class lifeboat is the first to be made entirely by us. RNLI engineers, naval architects and boat builders worked extremely hard to create an innovative boat to protect our brave volunteer crews. But how DO you make a lifeboat? 樂 #ShannonWeek | RNLI | Facebook