If you could name a lifeboat, what would you pick? One of our youngest supporters, Rachel Fairhurst (13) from Gateshead, has called a Shannon class lifeboat Storm Rider.

Members of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children, entered a competition to choose the name. Adults were then asked to vote for their favourite from a shortlist of five, and Storm Rider came out on top with a massive 13,192 votes.

‘I was totally speechless when I found out!’ Rachel enthuses. Rachel chose the name Storm Rider after seeing a video about the Newbiggin lifeboat out in a force 10: ‘I imagined the lifeboat and all those brave souls in it riding the storm.’

Rachel’s looking forward to the lifeboat naming ceremony in Spring 2014: ‘I know that I’ll be too excited to sleep the night before!’