The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways.
Memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man to the lifeboat rescue of the sailors from the St George in 1830
ON440 RNLB Licensed Victuallers III, a standard self-righter built in 1900
An Arun-class lifeboat
RNLI lifeguards on duty at Sennen in Cornwall
George Hibbert
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George Hibbert was an English merchant, politician and ship-owner. Alongside fellow slaver Robert Milligan, he was also one of the principals of the West India Dock Company which instigated the construction of the West India Docks on London's Isle of Dogs in 1800. An amateur botanist and book-collector, he also helped found the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1824.
