The RNLI has also introduced a new launch and recovery tractor, designed in conjunction with high-mobility-vehicles specialist Supacat Ltd, specifically for use with the Shannon. It acts as a mobile ...

The Shannon-class lifeboat is described as the "most agile and manoeuvrable all-weather lifeboat yet" Lifeboat volunteers in Peel are to receive a new lifeboat two years earlier than expected, the ...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has named a class of lifeboat after an Irish river for the first time. Rivers in Wales, Scotland and England have been chosen in the past but the latest ...

Caister Lifeboat's one-of-a-kind vessel is expected to be at home and ready for service later this year. The £1.6m Medina-class lifeboat, which is currently housed at the shipyard of builders' Diverse ...

Lifeboats in the Channel Islands are to be updated over the next few years, the RNLI has said. Jersey's current Tamar class lifeboat, Guernsey's Severn and Alderney's Trent class lifeboat will all be ...

The 27th new Tamar class lifeboat was handed over to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Babcock , marking the last lifeboat to be built for the charity by Babcock under the existing ...

THE volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew at Swanage are due to welcome their new vessel this Friday, April 8. The George Thomas Lacy will be the first Shannon Class lifeboat to be put into service in Dorset.

The Fraserburgh all-weather Trent class lifeboat, Willie and May Gall, launched at 11.20am on Friday 7 November following a ...

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