The RNLI’s historic scroll, marking the life-saving charity’s 200th anniversary this year, arrived in Lyme Regis on Thursday (April 25th) to be signed by four local volunteers.

The scroll, bearing the RNLI’s pledge to save lives at sea, is visiting lifeboat stations, lifeguard units and fundraising branches around the UK and Ireland to be signed by representatives at each location on the route.

On Wednesday, (April 24) the scroll was signed by volunteers at Seaton and Beer RNLI team. Read more: Seaton and Beer RNLI celebrate RNLI 200 with lots of events

Over seven months the five-metre-long scroll will pass through 240 RNLI locations before finishing its journey in October at Douglas on the Isle of Man, home of the RNLI founder Sir William Hillary. By this time it will carry some 700 signatures.

After four signatures were added in Lyme Regis the scroll had been signed by 256 volunteers.

The Lyme Regis signatories were Krys Lavery, manager of the lifeboat shop next to the lifeboat station, Petrina Muscroft, lifeboat station visits officer, water safety team representative Ian Marshall and the youngest crew member 22 year old Sam Ellis.

Many RNLI volunteers met the scroll at Lyme Regis lifeboat station, and after it was driven away from the town its next stop was due to be the Channel Islands