Three partners have formed a recycling partnership to raise money for U.K.’s Southport Lifeboat, an independent lifeboat rescue service. Pat Howard, a Lancashire resident, came up with the plan to ...

A British lifeboat worker has been reunited with his wedding ring more than six years after it fell into the sea while he was on an emergency call. Mark Thorne was launching a vessel in Weymouth ...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), informally known as the UK's fourth emergency service, has announced it is trialling bitcoin donations. The RNLI says it is the first major charity in ...

Awarding the Freedom of the City to the Douglas RNLI station acknowledged "200 years of courage and commitment" by crews past and present, the mayor has said. Douglas Council conferred the accolade on ...

A veteran helmsman has been sacked by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for labelling Sir Sadiq Khan a ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Lifeboats on cruise ships could be replaced by new technology on future vessels, according to members of a safety panel set up by the British coast guard. At a session during the ...

Six crew members of a docked British cruise liner were saved in a dramatic rescue yesterday after their lifeboat plummeted into the Hudson River, tossing them into the cold waters. Police divers raced ...

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