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RNLI Tobermory’s Dr Sam Jones on the 200 Voices podcast
200 Voices an RNLI podcast

‘By 1849 the RNLI was in crisis’

Episode 24 - Weathering the Storm: Dr Sam Jones

Wild weather and forbidding seas aren’t the only challenges the RNLI has faced – Dr Sam Jones reveals how the charity we know today came about.

As with so many good beginnings, it all started in a pub. On 4 March, 1824, Sir William Hillary met Thomas Wilson in Bishopsgate’s London Tavern to establish the National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck. But after an auspicious start, the charity we know today as the RNLI hit choppier waters.

RNLI Tobermory’s former Lifeboat Operations Manager, Dr Sam Jones – who very sadly passed away in our anniversary year – reveals the organisation’s evolution. And explains why, 200 years from now, future historians will recognise the same volunteer ethos at its heart.

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