Number of people helped by RNLI in UK and Channel Islands doubled in 2025
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“The number of people helped by RNLI lifeguards on the beaches of the UK and the Channel Islands doubled last year”
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— Jersey ( JUR-zee; Jèrriais: Jèrri [ʒɛri]), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing British Crown Dependency in Northwestern Europe 14 miles (23 km) off the Cotentin Pen…
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— The list of shipwrecks in the Channel Islands lists some of the ships that wrecked on or sank in the waters of the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey. The list includes ships that susta…
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— Ren Eryn Gill (born Ren Erin Gill, 29 March 1990), known professionally as Ren, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, musician, rapper, producer, actor, and director. Formerly a member of Trick the Fox and cu…
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“RNLI lifeguards went to the aid of about 18,000 people in 2023 and 2024, this leapt to more than 35,000 in 2025”
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— Ren Eryn Gill (born Ren Erin Gill, 29 March 1990), known professionally as Ren, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, musician, rapper, producer, actor, and director. Formerly a member of Trick the Fox and cu…
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— The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as …
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— Sidmouth RNLI Lifeboat Station, was located on the west corner of Ham Lane, now York Street, and The Esplanade, in Sidmouth, a seaside town located mid-way between Exmouth and Lyme Regis on the Jurass…
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“The RNLI began patrolling in 2001”
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— The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was established on 4 March 1824, becoming the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) on 20…
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— The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as …
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— Since its inception, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has provided lifeboats to lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Once past their operation life, the boats have mostly…
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“Over 25 years, RNLI lifeguards have saved 2,165 lives, and aided 459,354 people”
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“They have responded to 333,330 incidents and carried out more than 48m preventive actions”
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“RNLI lifeguards will be present on 39 beaches over the Easter weekend. The number of lifeguarded beaches will increase until there are more than 245 in July”
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“Lewis Timson, a lifeguard supervisor in Newquay, Cornwall, has been with the RNLI for the whole 25 years”
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“Rescues he particularly remembers include extricating a boy trapped in a hole on the beach that had collapsed in 2018”
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“The same happened in 2021, when a man was completely buried by sand and lifeguards enlisted the help of 25 members of the public to dig him out”
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