Learn about the different classes of RNLI lifeboats and their lifesaving features. As a charity, our lifeboats are funded by generous legacies and donations.

Since its inception, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has provided lifeboats to lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and flood rescue.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways.

The Severn class is the largest lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The class, which is 17.3 metres (56 ft 9 in) long, was introduced in to service in 1996. It is named after the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain.

Our Severn class lifeboat is the largest lifeboat in the RNLI fleet. She was developed in the early 1990s and introduced into the fleet in 1996. As an all-weather lifeboat, the Severn can take on the worst sea conditions and comes into her own on long offshore searches and rescues.

The RNLI have 34 all-weather lifeboats and 42 inshore lifeboats in the relief fleet, ready to temporarily replace station lifeboats whenever they require regular or emergency maintenance.

Jul 10, 2024 · With over 400 boats at 238 stations the RNLI, which is still a charity, is almost unrecognisable to where it was 200 years ago, when, it was reported, there were just 39 …

NEWPORT, PEMBROKESHIRE.—The new Life-boat station which has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at Newport, Pembrokeshire, was publicly inaugurated on Tuesday, the 27th May, last.

Feb 3, 2024 · Since joining the RNLI’s fleet in 1963, the charity’s inshore lifeboats have extended the Institute’s lifesaving capability around the coast massively, aiding 154,192 people and saving 30,778 lives.