With the raft being swept away by the tide she couldn't climb back on board and was struggling when the lifeboat crew reached her.

Some of the lifeboat crew managed to climb onto the upturned hull.

As usual our lifeboat crews have done the Institution proud.

The articles show the bravery, skill and commitment that is needed by each of the lifeboat crews.

Within a day of the disaster enough people from Mousehole had volunteered to form a new lifeboat crew.

The lifeboat crew were towed back to Lynmouth by a steam ship.

The series focused on the local lifeboat crew and first aired in January 1982.

On 19 December 1981 the entire lifeboat crew of eight was lost during an attempted rescue in hurricane-force winds.

It took the lifeboat crew two attempts to row out over the bar at the mouth of the river into the heavy seas.

Owing to the remote location, houses for the lifeboat crew and their families were added a few years later.