Arun Barnett 52Ft Barnett 60Ft Brede Barnett 51Ft Clyde

Arun Brede Clyde Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit:

LENGTH (m): 15.8 Serving from 1971 LENGTH (m): 10 LENGTH (m): 21.3 WEIGHT (t): 32 to 2008, the Arun class WEIGHT (t): 8.5 When introduced in 1982, WEIGHT (t): 78 The Clyde class lifeboat lifeboat vastly improved the Brede class was was the largest ever built TOP SPEED (kn): 18.5 TOP SPEED (kn): 18.6 TOP SPEED (kn): 11.5 the accommodation the fastest lifeboat in for the RNLI and the first RANGE (nm): 250 and speed capabilities RANGE (nm): 140 our fleet. RANGE (nm): 1700 to have a steel hull. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1971 of the fleet at the time. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1982 DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1968 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 37 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 20 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 20

Barnett 52ft Barnett 60ft Barnett 51ft Photo credit: Beken of Cowes Beken Photo credit: of Cowes Beken Photo credit: Farr Grahame Photo credit: The 60 foot Barnett class The 51 foot Barnett class LENGTH (m): 15.8 The 52 foot Barnett class LENGTH (m): 18.3 was the largest lifeboat LENGTH (m): 15.5 was introduced soon WEIGHT (t): 28 was the final incarnation WEIGHT (t): 43 in our fleet when WEIGHT (t): 27 after its predecessor to TOP SPEED (kn): 9.5 of a lifeboat class that TOP SPEED (kn): 9.5 introduced in 1923, TOP SPEED (kn): 9.5 allow this successful served for most of the named after its designer, RANGE (nm): 300 RANGE (nm): 300 RANGE (nm): 300 boat design to launch 20th Century. naval architecht DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1950 DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1923 DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1928 from a slipway. James Barnett. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 37 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 30 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 52

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LENGTH (m): 10.8 No other all-weather LENGTH (m): 12 Designed to fill a gap LENGTH (m): 11.6 WEIGHT (t): 6 lifeboat has been WEIGHT (t): - between inshore RIBs WEIGHT (t): 14 The Mersey is the manufactured more and all-weather lifeboats, longest-serving TOP SPEED (kn): 7.5 TOP SPEED (kn): 28 TOP SPEED (kn): 17 than the Liverpool class, three Medina class all-weather lifeboat RANGE (nm): 70 with 60 boats built RANGE (nm): - lifeboats were built but RANGE (nm): 240 in our fleet. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1931 between 1931 and 1954. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1980 never saw active service. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2005 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 53 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 0 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 33+

Oakley 37ft Oakley 48ft Rother Photo credit: Grahame Farr Grahame Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit:

The larger of the two LENGTH (m): 11.3 Designed to provide LENGTH (m): 18.8 LENGTH (m): 11.4 Based on the design of incarnations of the WEIGHT (t): 12 great stability, WEIGHT (t): 30 WEIGHT (t): 13 the Oakley class lifeboat, Oakley class, the 48ft TOP SPEED (kn): 8 the Oakley class could TOP SPEED (kn): 8 TOP SPEED (kn): 8 the Rother class was the lifeboat was designed also self-right using a final displacement hull RANGE (nm): - RANGE (nm): - for slipway launching RANGE (nm): 180 water ballast system. lifeboat produced. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1958 DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1963 or to lie afloat. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1973 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 35 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 25 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 20

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity registered in England and Wales (209603), Scotland (SC037736), the Republic of Ireland (CHY 2678 and 20003326), the Bailiwick of Jersey (14), the Isle of Man (1308 and 006329F), the Bailiwick of Guernsey and Alderney, of West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Severn Shannon Solent Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: Photo credit: RNLI/Harrison Bates Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: The Shannon is the first Our Severn class lifeboat modern all-weather LENGTH (m): 17.3 LENGTH (m): 13.3 LENGTH (m): 14.8 The Solent class is the largest lifeboat in lifeboat to be propelled WEIGHT (t): 42 WEIGHT (t): 18 WEIGHT (t): 27 lifeboat was a the RNLI fleet, developed by waterjets instead of TOP SPEED (kn): 25 TOP SPEED (kn): 25 TOP SPEED (kn): 9.5 steel-hulled version in the early 1990s and traditional propellers, of the 48-foot RANGE (nm): 250 introduced into the fleet RANGE (nm): 250 making it the most RANGE (nm): 150 Oakley class. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1996 in 1996. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2013 agile and manoeuvrable DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1969 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 25+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 8+ all-weather lifeboat yet. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 24

Surf Tamar Tyne Photo credit: Beken of Cowes Beken Photo credit: Martin Fish Photo credit: AndyPhoto credit: Lyons

LENGTH (m): 9.8 The Surf class was the LENGTH (m): 16.3 When the Tamar class LENGTH (m): 14.3 WEIGHT (t): 4 smallest and lightest WEIGHT (t): 32 was introduced in 2005, WEIGHT (t): 26 The final Tyne class in TOP SPEED (kn): 7.5 offshore motor lifeboat, TOP SPEED (kn): 25 it was the most TOP SPEED (kn): 17.6 service was at Wicklow, RANGE (nm): 40 designed by naval RANGE (nm): 250 sophisticated and safest RANGE (nm): 240 withdrawn on 4 April 2019. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1936 architect James Barnett. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2005 lifeboat in our fleet. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1983 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 29 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 15+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 36

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity registered in England and Wales (209603), Scotland (SC037736), the Republic of Ireland (CHY 2678 and 20003326), the Bailiwick of Jersey (14), the Isle of Man (1308 and 006329F), the Bailiwick of Guernsey and Alderney, of West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Thames Trent Watson 46ft Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI/ Nicholas Leach Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: Designed as a larger The Trent class was LENGTH (m): 15.2 version of the Waveney LENGTH (m): 14.3 our first all-weather LENGTH (m): 14.2 The most famous of WEIGHT (t): 27 class lifeboat, the two WEIGHT (t): 28 lifeboat capable of WEIGHT (t): 21 these lifeboats was the TOP SPEED (kn): 17.5 390bhp V8 diesel engines TOP SPEED (kn): 25 25 knots and a range TOP SPEED (kn): 8 Solomon Brown of RNLI RANGE (nm): 210 allowed this lifeboat RANGE (nm): 250 of 250 nautical miles, RANGE (nm): 209 Penlee, tragically lost DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1974 to reach speeds over DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1994 setting the precedent DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1935 in December 1981. 17 knots. for the RNLI fleet. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 23 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 27+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 35

Waveney The Zetland Hovercraft Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI/Nigel Millard Photo credit: RNLI inshore rescue Based on an Built in 1802, LENGTH (m): 13.7 LENGTH (m): 9.15 LENGTH (m): 8 hovercraft can reach American design, the Zetland is the oldest WEIGHT (t): 19 WEIGHT (t): 3 WEIGHT (t): 3.86 areas inaccessible to this was the first surviving lifeboat in TOP SPEED (kn): 15.4 TOP SPEED (kn): 4 TOP SPEED (kn): 30 conventional lifeboats, lifeboat capable the world and saved extending the lifesaving RANGE (nm): 190 of speeds over RANGE (nm): - over 500 lives during RANGE (nm): 90 capability of stations DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1964 10 knots. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1802 her service. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2002 with difficult terrain. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 35 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 78 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 19+

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity registered in England and Wales (209603), Scotland (SC037736), the Republic of Ireland (CHY 2678 and 20003326), the Bailiwick of Jersey (14), the Isle of Man (1308 and 006329F), the Bailiwick of Guernsey and Alderney, of West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Atlantic 21 Atlantic 75 Atlantic 85 Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: RNLI Photo credit: Stephen Duncombe Photo credit: With the addition of LENGTH (m): 7.2 The Atlantic 21 was the LENGTH (m): 7.4 ballast tanks at the LENGTH (m): 8.4 With the ability to reach WEIGHT (t): 1.4 first generation of rigid WEIGHT (t): 1.6 front of the boat, WEIGHT (t): 1.8 35 knots, the B class, TOP SPEED (kn): 32 inflatable boat, taking it’s TOP SPEED (kn): 32 the Atlantic 75 was able TOP SPEED (kn): 35 or Atlantic 85, is the RANGE (nm): 96 name from the Atlantic RANGE (nm): 80 to operate in larger surf RANGE (nm): 105 second fastest lifeboat DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1970 College in South Wales. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1993 than its predecessor, DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2005 in our fleet. the Atlantic 21. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 37 SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 28+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 16+

D class E class Arancia Photo credit: Martin Fish Photo credit: RNLI/Nathan WilliamsPhoto credit: Sam Chamberlain Photo credit:

LENGTH (m): 5 LENGTH (m): 10.5 Our E class inshore LENGTH (m): 3.88 These Inshore rescue WEIGHT (t): 0.4 The D class inshore WEIGHT (t): 5.4 lifeboat is the fastest WEIGHT (t): 0.165 boats are primarily lifeboat has been the in the RNLI fleet and used by RNLI lifeguards TOP SPEED (kn): 25 TOP SPEED (kn): 40 TOP SPEED (kn): 26 workhorse of the RNLI was specially designed so that they can reach RANGE (nm): 75 for over 50 years. RANGE (nm): 120 for London’s busy RANGE (nm): - casualties in DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 1963 DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2002 River Thames. DATE FIRST LAUNCHED: 2001 the surf, fast. SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 58+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 19+ SERVICE LENGTH (yrs): 20+

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