The Safest Lifeboats In The World

Life boats and rescue boats are two different things

RNLI is an amazing institution. Volunteers, publicans, shop workers, fishermen, posties etc crew these vessels at a moments notice. Funded by public donations. True heroes.

My favorite lifeboat is one I never have to use

A lot of the clips are not lifeboats , but patrol boats.

Big thanks always to RNLI. Funded purely by donations, and operated by volunteers. This is Britain at its best. For those in peril on the seas.

I would consider quite a few of these as rescue craft or patrol boats instead of life boats. To me, a life boat is something launched from a ship or boat to save lives of crew and passengers after said ship or boat is no loner sea worthy or there is a threat on board such as fire or some other hazzardous situation. I do like that all of them are motorized since escaping a sinking ship is useless if you are stuck drifting with the current possibly dying from dehydration, starvation or exposure long before being found.

I've donated to the RNLI all my working life and will do for as long as I can after I retire. It's long history is the stuff of legend.

At 0:26 you introduce the USCG 47' lifeboat with an awesome picture of the USCG 52' lifeboat Victory coming out of Yaquina.

The RNLI shows what can be done when the sole purpose of the organization is the provision of life saving services. My cousin is one of their full time fundraisers and I was a member when I lived in the UK. I joined after I called them out one filthy night when I saw a red flare over the Sound of Sleat in a major storm one January night. I watched them heading out from Mallaig and reaching the casualty. Next day I went into Mallaig and saw they had rescued a wooden fishing boat that had stove in some planks cutting too close to the Point of Sleat lighthouse. That was the old Arun class lifeboat, "Davina and Charles Matthew Hunter". And guess who paid for that one.

What the video doesn't cover and other commenters have touched on is that the RNLI is a (mostly) volunteer staffed charity that goes out into the seas around the British Isles as a search and rescue service. The north sea isn't a fun place to be when the weather is bad but they will still jump in a lifeboat and go looking for anyone in distress when the call comes in. Kind of like an unpaid coastguard really. One of the few "big name" charities that I'll give money to.

A lifeboat doesn't launch from a fing parking lot. What language led me here?

How do you make a video about lifeboats without knowing what a lifeboat is?

Most Rescue vessels of the severn-class are now equipped with the even more powerful MTU 10V2000 M94 with 1600 hp each. The narrative is very much focused on the british RNLI and the equipment they use, but there are others out there. The german DGzRS for example with its largest rescue cruiser, the Hermann Marwede or the very new 28m-class.

The newer free fall lifeboats with rearward facing seats are fine, but some of the older forward facing ones can be a real pain to get into.

Safe-Haven Marines "Thunder-Child" is seriously one of the most brutally beautiful service Boats out on the Water.

Id like to see that viking inflatable life raft in rough ocean conditions rather than a perfectly calm test lake. Doubt it would last 5 minutes

What is the battery longevity when under power on the all electric ?

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these plastic craftboats can survuve shark bite?

I've piloted the SPHL and they are great for emergency craft, we dropped 40 feet headfirst into the water from a gantry and as it emerged from underneath it zoomed off in a straight line away from the danger, (this wasn't an emergency it was my offshore OPITO certificate course) very easy to steer, and lifting out the water could not be easier, just hook it up and lift,