Lifeboatman runs marathon
Former Royal Navy man and now Penlee Lifeboat mechanic Tony Rendle will again run the London Marathon, he’s already taken the punishment having run the marathon before.
This time Tony hopes to break 4hrs 45mins for his London Marathon and should be on target with 650 kilometres road running so far.
The lifeboatman joined the Royal Navy from school at HMS Raleigh and joined the staff at Britannia Royal Naval College where it just happens his father and grandfather both worked as civilians.
He went on to become an aircraft engineer mechanic and spent his last 19 years mainly based on RNAS Culdrose squadrons just across Mount’s Bay from the RNLI’s Penlee Lifeboat Station.
Tony has spent 20 years with the RNLI, 10yrs as a volunteer signing up in 2004 and as a full time mechanic for 10yrs. Apart from a short stint with Dart Lifeboat Station he has been at Penlee.
Of his time with the RNLI Tony said “it’s great to be running London again for the RNLI especially in the RNLI’s 200th year”
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Penlee RNLI is based in Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 5HW. The volunteers crew an all-weather Severn Class Lifeboat the Ivan Ellen and a B class Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat the Mollie and Ivor Dent. The Penlee Lifeboat has a rich 200 years history of saving lives at sea.
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The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 142,700 lives.
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