Three rescue boats with Royal National Lifeboat Institution came to the rescue of a cargo ship that had lost power and was in danger of hitting rocks in southeast Ireland...

When the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution was given the chance to design their dream lifeboat, they came up with the Shannon: a waterjet-propelled, highly-maneuverable, stop-on-a-dime, beach-launched and recovered, self-righting,...

A dive support vessel with 23 crew was forced to issue a mayday call on Monday after a fire broke out in the vicinity of the vessel’s engine room as...

  Volunteer crews from Britain’s Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) helped rescue a bunker tanker that was nearly capsized after a collision with a containership off Scotland. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon...

Two crew are lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping a capsized tug just before it sank Monday night in strong winds and poor visibility near Southampton, England. RNLI and the...

A volunteer RNLI crew member from Mumbles lifeboat station thought a helicopter rescue exercise was a good time to pop the question to his now-fiancée. Here they are coming back to the lifeboat after she said yes.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Blyth has issued an urgent warning the public after a drunk man narrowly escaped death after swimming into the path of an inbound cargo ship in the River Blyth.

A volunteer crew from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution this weekend rescued a stranded dog from some of England's tallest cliffs more than a week after pooch went missing.

A volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew from Teignmouth shows off their boat roping skills to stop a runaway speedboat after its operator was bucked off. Yeehaw!!

Rescuers from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) spent many hours this past weekend battling through big seas to reach and support the disabled 88-meter cargo ship, Wilson Gdynia.  ...

Work with a view, I’ll take it.

A volunteer rescue crew with the Royal National Lifeboat Institute this weekend assisted in the rescue of 6 fisherman forced to abandon their trawler in waves described at 30+ feet and winds gusting to 60 m.p.h.

A volunteer lifeboat crew with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were called out Tuesday to assist in the rescue of three crewmembers from a burning offshore wind farm workboat off...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is an all-volunteer, charity-funded organization aimed at ending the preventable loss of life at sea in an around the United Kingdom and Ireland. Saving Rescuing an...

30 people had to be rescued from a sinking tall ship which had ran into trouble along the coast of Ireland in the Celtic Sea.

image above: vintage Lifebuoy advert Sir William Hillary came to live on the Isle of Man in 1808. Being aware of the treacherous nature of the Irish Sea, with many...

Here is a compilation of rescue footage taken during 2012 from the front lines of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s rescue operations around the UK and Ireland. The charity relies...

Like wrangling a wild horse at sea, the RNLI shows off a few tools in their rescue toolbox by capturing a runaway fishing boat. Ok, so maybe it’s not like...