Royal National

Lifeboat Institution
What generally Royal National Lifeboat
Institution do?
1. Volunteer lifeboat crews provide a 24-hour rescue
service in the UK and Ireland
2. Their seasonal lifeguards look after people on busy
beaches.
3. Their Flood Rescue Team helps those affected by
flooding.
1. lifeboats and
lifeboat stations

RNLI lifeboat crews

protect hundreds of
communities around the
UK and Ireland through
our 24-hour search and
rescue service. To do so,
they rely on the safest,
most reliable lifeboats
and modern stations to
launch from.
2. Lifeguards and
beaches

Their lifeguards patrol

beaches across the UK and
Channel Islands.
When there’s a flooding
emergency, the Fire and Rescue
Service’s Command and Control
system usually coordinates the
emergency response, which
can include deploying the RNLI
Flood Rescue Team. 
Flood rescue

The RNLI Flood Rescue Team

is always ready to carry
out search and rescue
operations wherever
severe flooding puts lives
at risk. The team is made
up of 28 volunteers from
across the RNLI, including
lifeboat crew and
operational staff, all
specially trained in swift
water rescue.