RNLI

Fishguard RNLI's Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII, orange and navy with 14-03 on the bow, powering through grey sea with crew on the aft deck
Angle

FISHGUARD: The lifeboat paid for by a generation of Blue Peter viewers is retiring after 34 years

Blue Peter VII is the only all-weather lifeboat ever to carry the name. The RNLI has now said when she…

Marloes Sands beach at low tide from the cliff path, with Gateholm and Skokholm in the distance
Angle RNLI

MARLOES SANDS: Body found in search for boy, 15, who got into difficulty in the sea

Police say a body has been found more than a week after the teenager, who was on holiday from the…

Six RNLI lifeguards in red and yellow uniforms posing with a rescue watercraft on the promenade at Aberavon Beach
Aberavon

ABERAVON: Flags come down as beach’s lifeguards bow out after ‘extremely busy’ season

The RNLI lifeguard season at Aberavon Beach ended on Sunday, with Port Talbot's lifeboat station paying tribute to a team…

Beth Morgan in a yellow RNLI lifeguard top holding binoculars and looking out over a busy beach
lifeguard

PORTHCAWL: Lifeguard, 21, helped design the RNLI’s new beach huts. Now she works out of one at Trecco Bay

Beth Morgan started lifeguarding at 17. This year the engineering student was invited to the RNLI's design team to help…

Marloes Sands beach at low tide from the cliff path, with Gateholm and Skokholm in the distance
Angle RNLI

MARLOES SANDS: Search for missing 15-year-old called off after two days

Lifeboats, aircraft, police marine officers and coastguard teams searched the Pembrokeshire coast from St Ann's Head to Broad Haven for…

Silhouettes of two people jumping from a rocky cliff into the sea, with others watching from the rocks (stock image — not the incident described in the article)
Langland Bay

MUMBLES: Lifeboat crew warn against tombstoning after teenagers cut off by tide between Limeslade and Langland

Two teenagers who had been jumping from the rocks near Ginny's Guy were rescued by Mumbles RNLI on Sunday evening…

Four RNLI lifeboat crew in yellow and red kit and helmets sitting on their lifeboat inside the Horton and Port Eynon station
Gower

GOWER: A first rescue with his father alongside — new lifeboat volunteer helps save two stranded at Oxwich Point

Jay Littlejohns answered his first shout for Horton and Port Eynon RNLI on Friday night — with his father Jeremy…

Ian Stroud standing beside an orange RNLI inshore lifeboat inside Porthcawl lifeboat station, wearing a Porthcawl Lifeboat Station hoodie.
BEM

PORTHCAWL: BEM for the RNLI volunteer behind 34 years on the lifeboats — and the town’s Christmas swim

Ian Stroud, who has given more than three decades to Porthcawl's lifeboat station, has been recognised in the King's Birthday…

Three RNLI lifeguards monitoring the beach (Image: RNLI/Nigel Millard)
River Tawe

SWANSEA: Stay safe in the water this summer — council backs drowning prevention campaign

Swansea Council is urging residents and visitors to follow the Water Safety Code ahead of Drowning Prevention Week — with…

View from an RNLI lifeboat in the River Tawe at SA1, showing a helicopter overhead during the search operation.
All-Weather Lifeboat

Body recovered from River Tawe after major emergency response

Emergency services have confirmed that the body of a man has been recovered from the River Tawe in Swansea following…

Surfer grabbing RNLI rescuer’s hand during lifeboat rescue off Rest Bay.
HM Coastguard

Dramatic video shows surfer rescued off Porthcawl as RNLI warn of rip tide dangers

The RNLI has released dramatic footage of a surfer being rescued off Porthcawl after he was swept out to sea…