On #InternationalWomenInMaritimeDay we're celebrating the thousands of female volunteers across the RNLI family. We have 5 women sea-going crew here in Holyhead - Nicky, Steph, Holly, Kiri and Jayanne, and they're all amazing!✨️👏
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) likens GOP to “Titanic”: “We’re in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck, telling everybody it’s fine, and meanwhile Donald Trump’s running around, trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”
Dutch lifeboat Zeemanshoop (Seaman's Hope) has arrived in UK, it decks crammed with 46 refugees fleeing the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands, mostly Jewish.
Irish seaman & Antarctic explorer, Thomas Crean in 1915. He was aboard the Endurance in Antarctica during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with Ernest Shackleton. The boat was trapped in ice for 492 days. The 28-man crew used lifeboats to reach uninhabited Elephant Island.
🚘🫧 Our RNLI volunteers have washed their first vehicle in this year’s fundraising event. Until 1pm today, they’ll rinse, scrub and polish your cars leaving them looking shipshape. And all for just £5!