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 ...

A brand new £2.78M Shannon class RNLI lifeboat has officially entered service at its new home on the Isle of Skye. RNLB Peter ...

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 ...

Fenit RNLI’s proud and enduring history added a new chapter this week with the announcement that a Shannon class lifeboat is coming to the station. A seven-strong team from Fenit RNLI attended a ...

Fowey RNLI is to be given one of the charity's fastest class of lifeboat this summer. The RNLI said the Cornish town's current Trent lifeboat, the Maurice and Joyce Hardy (ALB 14-18), is to be ...

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 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 ...

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.