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The volunteer crews of the RNLI鈥檚 238 lifeboat stations can be paged at any time, day or night, calling them away from friends, families and colleagues to head out into the unknown.

On the north eastern tip of the Scottish mainland, the crew at Wick begin a frantic search to find a paddleboarder who has drifted a mile out to sea, while her family wait anxiously on the shore. Further south, the Fraserburgh crew respond to a mayday call from a trawler that has run aground with four fishermen on board.

In Mudeford, on the Dorset coast, the crew race to the rescue of a small inflatable boat that鈥檚 struggling to make it back to harbour in 40mph winds. On the Kent coast, a bystander has reported a capsized catamaran a mile out to sea. And in Rhyl, a Christmas Day call out to a person in the water leads to an unexpected discovery.