Volunteer crew members at The Lizard RNLI lifeboat station have had a vital part of their crew training funded by another charity.

Harry Bray, 18, and Dylan Atkinson, 20, recently travelled to the RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, to complete the charity’s 'crew emergency procedures' course.

Harry and Dylan, who both joined in March 2018, were inspired to join up as volunteer crew members as both have a strong family association with the RNLI, and especially The Lizard lifeboat station.

The course sees volunteer crew being trained in a variety of crucial subjects, such as how to deal with fires aboard lifeboats, how to ‘abandon ship’ in the event of an emergency - with a four metre jump into water - team survival swimming, coping in a life-raft in simulated darkness, how to right a capsized inshore lifeboat, and the importance of lifejackets.

It also includes sessions on the correct use of flares, fire extinguishers and throw bags.

Harry and Dylan’s training took place in the Sea Survival Centre at the RNLI College, where they were joined by other RNLI volunteer crew members from around the UK and Ireland.

The training was funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charitable foundation that helps to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and research.

The foundation has agreed to fund the RNLI’s crew emergency procedures course for a second five-year period until December 2020.

This extra additional funding of £1.06 million brings their total support for RNLI crew training to just over £2.46 million since 2008.

More than 3,000 RNLI volunteer crew members have now received the training thanks to Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s funding. Fellow Lizard Lifeboat crew members Alfred Amiss and Phil Wilson have also recently attended the same training course.