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Rhyl Volunteer Crew Member Kevin Taggart looks at the camera with a neutral expression. He is wearing crew kit and standing on a beach.
Trapped on a shrinking sandbank: 120 people rescued in Rhyl
At Rhyl Beach, 120 people are getting cut off by a rapidly incoming tide. Will the volunteers bring them to safety before it’s too late? 
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Newhaven’s lifeboat powers through the sea on a misty, grey day, with lots of spray around it
In the face of nature’s fury
Driving rain, squally conditions. All in a night’s work for Newhaven lifeboat crew.
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An RNLI inshore D class lifeboat in rough seas with three crew aboard, two lean out to reach for a child in the water on the port side of the lifeboat
Watch the moment a girl’s life is saved
Dun Laoghaire RNLI volunteers rescue a child from rough seas.
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Yarmouth’s Severn class lifeboat passes by The Needles. There is one crew member at the front of the boat on the lower deck, and five crew looking out from the upper deck.
‘It was like looking for a needle in a haystack’
When two paddleboarders go missing, seven lifeboats launch to their rescue. Will the crews find them before darkness falls?
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Severn class lifeboat breaking through waves

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