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.

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.

A lifeboat and you're worried about zero emissions ??? Give me a break !

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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

Very few lifeboats were shown in this video.

Top of the list is the one that snaps your neck to get u in the water 😂 😂

The Vanguard shown can be used for off shore oil rigs. A YouTube channel featured one he purchased that was once on a rig. It had been stored over 20 years so needed some tlc!

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.

Love how most of these rescue boats have Garman OLED cockpit display systems