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 ...

Douglas RNLI is to get a new lifeboat as a "interim solution" while talks continue over station's future. A Trent class all-weather lifeboat will replace the current Mersey class - a vessel that was ...

The Douglas Lifeboat Station is out of action due to the lack of a working vessel, the RNLI has confirmed. The station's lifeboat, Ruby Clery, had been replaced by a relief Mersey Class vessel after ...

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.

Girvan Lifeboat Station is set to welcome the new Shannon class all-weather lifeboat. This vessel will be the first of its kind in the west of Scotland. The £2.1million boat will be replacing the old ...

The recent tragedies in Buncrana and Sligo where three schoolboys lost their lives, serves as a brutal reminder of the dangers of open water. Last year, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) ...

A boat was rescued twice in thick fog off Southport yesterday after it drifted out to sea and then its skipper was taken ill. The United Kingdom Coastguard requested the launch of Lytham St Annes ...