The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, better known as the RNLI, is celebrating it’s 200th anniversary today.
Volunteer crews have launched nearly 46,000 times across Scotland in that time, saving some 12,000 lives.
One volunteer, Thomas James Robertson has experienced more than a quarter of the RNLI’s history.
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