Amelia’s life on the waves started with a family adventure on a deep sea trawler and  her efforts to save the St Kilda ‘ferry’, stories told in her engaging 2017 book Mistress and Commander: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders. Now she roams the world leading bespoke seaborne tours, notably in Southeast Asia.

The RNLI provides and maintains 24-hour search and rescue stations around the UK and Ireland thanks to valiant volunteer lifeboat crews and funded entirely by charitable donations. Find out more.