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A BBC audio slideshow celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Lougher Inshore Rescue service.

Lougher Inshore Rescue are celebrating 40 years of active service. The Lougher crew are an independent crew separate from the RNLI.

The website of Maine marine artist Kathy Bray whose family are involved in the US publication WoodenBoat magazine.

The website of Ellen Tynan who specializes in marine photography.

A minute's silence was held today at 12:20pm while at the RNLI HQ at Poole, Dorset the Duke of Kent acting as the RNLI president unveiled a sculpture designed by Sam Holland to commemorate those crew members who had given their lives whilst trying to save others.

RNLI stations around the UK and Ireland flew the RNLI flags at half-mast. The plinth of the sculpture carries the names of 778 crew members who have paid the ultimate sacrifice; along with the family motto of the RNLI's founder, Sir William Hillary: "With courage, nothing is impossible."

An RNLI video of the construction of their memorial as designed by Sam Holland and unveiled today at their HQ in Poole, Dorset.

A video tribute to the crew of the 1981 Penlee lifeboat disaster which saw the loss of the Solomon Browne and her entire crew.

An apt video on the day to remember all those who have given their lives to the sea. These eight crew members are probably the most famous in the public consciousness to have perished whilst carrying out their duties of saving lives at sea.

The website of artist Sam Holland who has designed the memorial sculpture for the RNLI in memory of the crew members who have given their lives to the cause of saving others in peril on the sea.

The flickr page for photos of the RNLI memorial designed by Sam Holland to be unveiled at their Poole HQ later today.