The Safest Lifeboats In The World

Life boats and rescue boats are two different things

My favorite lifeboat is one I never have to use

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

No lifeboat is any good if the people onboard a watercraft/ship can't get to it and into it. Ask the crewmen on the RORO car carrier Fremantle Highway that caught fire a couple weeks ago. Crew Members had to jump off the side of the ship because they were forward, the lifeboat was on the stern and the fire between them and the lifeboat. Several were severely injured and one died.

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

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.

Very few lifeboats were shown in this video.

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.

That was a very interesting video. Thanks.

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

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.

To avoid confusion it’s the RNLI Severn not seven. RNLI craft are named after U.K. rivers in this case the River Severn on the west coast of England which leads to the city of Bristol

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

I don't think #1,#5, #7, #9 are lifeboats, they could be patrol or rescue or all weather transportation boats. What's your definition of a lifeboat? Lifeboats are those used to sustain life for a relatively short period of time until they can be rescued.