When you are sitting at home in the warmth , on a winter's night , spare a thought for the crews of the RNLI who go out to sea and risk their lives in conditions like this to rescue total strangers from disaster.

All of these pictures have been given to the RNLI at no charge, I hope they make some money from them. They have been used in RNLI lifeboats in action calendars, books, RNLI websites, vehicles, event programmes, magazines and on DVD.