Saving Life at Sea

‘Valour and virtue have not perished in the British race’, said Winston Churchill, describing the long record of the national life-boat service.

A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Aquatint, ca. 1850. Wellcome Collection.

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