Photographic exhibition celebrates the women of the RNLI

To mark the bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), there’s an exhibition of people who most certainly wouldn’t have been invited to the founding rescue – women.Although founded in 1824, the first bravery medal was awarded to a woman, Grace Darlinc in 1838 for saving stranded survivors from a shipwreck. In 1865, the first women were able to launch lifeboats but not be on them, and it wasn’t until 1904 that Letita French became the first woman to man