International Maritime Rescue Federation

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International Maritime Rescue Federation
(IMRF)
founding 1924 in London , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Seat Stonehaven , ScotlandScotlandScotland 
motto "Preventing loss of life in the world's waters"
main emphasis Water rescue
Chair Udo Fox
Members 99 organizations (2017)
Website /www.international-maritime-rescue.org

The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF), the "World Sea Rescue Association", is a worldwide alliance of sea ​​rescue services .

history

In 1924 the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) invited to the first International Lifeboat Conference in London ( England ) on the occasion of its centenary . Together with those present from Denmark , France , Japan , the Netherlands , Norway , Spain , Sweden and the USA , it was decided to found the International Lifeboat Federation (ILF). This alliance of sea rescue services initially had its secretariat in Poole at the RNLI. In 1985 it was recognized as an advisory non-governmental organization with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of the United Nations . Since 2007 it has operated under its current name, International Maritime Rescue Federation. The motto of the organization is "Preventing loss of life in the world's waters", ie "preventing the loss of life in the world's waters". The IMRF is based in Stonehaven in Scotland .

Members

In 2004 the organization had 68 full members from 37 countries. Geographically, they are spread across six organizations from Africa , nine from the Asia-Pacific and Australasia regions , 39 from Europe , two from the Indian Ocean and the Middle East , five from South America and seven from North and Central America and the Caribbean . From Germany, its full members are the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS) and the German Life Rescue Society . Affiliate members are Sea-Watch from Germany and the Swiss Lifesaving Society (SLRG) in Arbon on Lake Constance .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Royal National Lifeboat Institution , International Life Saving Federation website, accessed July 4, 2018.
  2. ^ History of the International Maritime Rescue Federation , accessed July 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ How the RNLI became an international lifesaver , RNLI Magazine, April 10, 2017, accessed July 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ History of International Lifeboat federation ( Memento of July 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), international-lifeboat-federation.org, accessed on July 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ Non-Governmental international Organizations which have been granted consultative status with IMO , www.imo.org, accessed on July 3, 2018.
  6. ^ International Lifeboat Federation . In: ICB Dear and Peter Kemp (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, Oxford University Press, accessed July 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Our Mission , www.international-maritime-rescue.org, accessed July 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ Contact , www.international-maritime-rescue.org, accessed on July 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ Full Members ( Memento of July 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), www.international-maritime-rescue.org, accessed on July 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Affiliate Members , www.international-maritime-rescue.org, accessed on July 3, 2018.