A flood of rescues.THE Royal National Lifeboat Association had one of its busiest years on record in 2007 despite fewer visitors to Britain's coastline during the early summer. The charity's 233 lifeboat station crews launched 8,052 times last year, rescuing 7,715 people. RNLI RNLI (in Britain) Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI n abbr (BRIT) (= Royal National Lifeboat Institution) → organización benéfica que proporciona un servicio de lanchas de socorro lifeguards, who operate on 71 beaches in the south west and East Anglia East Anglia (ăng`glēə), kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, comprising the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was settled in the late 5th cent. by so-called Angles from northern Germany and Scandinavia. , were also busy, rescuing 1,350 people, aiding a further 8,533 and responding to 8,201 incidents. Tower lifeboat station on the River Thames was the busiest RNLI lifeboat station in 2007, launching 265 times and rescuing 92 people. |
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