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 ...

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 ...

Gorleston Lifeboat station is set to be relocated - but the RNLI says a lot of work has to be done before it can say whether a new vessel can be brought back to the station. The Shannon class George ...

Troon RNLI lifeboat station will welcome their new lifeboat, a state-of-the-art Shannon class all-weather lifeboat ‘RNLB Roy Barker VI’, next month. After being placed into the water at the lifeboat ...

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 ...

Residents of a North Devon town are concerned by the RNLI's big change to its local lifeboat fleet. The RNLI at Ilfracombe is replacing their current Shannon class all weather boat, ‘The Barry and ...

Shannon craft are the smallest and lightest in the RNLI fleet and capable of 25 knots. The new 2.4m euros (£2m) lifeboat will be stationed on Lough Swilly in County Donegal and is expected to arrive ...

Four lifeboats will be replaced in a bid to help more people using the coast, the RNLI has said. As part of a wider strategy set to be rolled out over the next two years the RNLI said lifeboats would ...