Since the Royal National Lifeboat Institute was set up a 182 years ago its volunteer crews have saved more than 137,000 lives. Although women have officially only been allowed to join boat crews in the last 40 years, they've always been involved in sea rescues. Grace Darling famously saved nine lives with her father off the Northumberland coast as far back as 1838.
But nowadays the number of women joining is increasing every year and at the moment there are more than 300 lifeboat women around the British coast. Treeva Fenwick went to see two crews in West Wales at Littlehaven and St Davids.
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