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The Shannon class prototype boat was completed late 2011 when active service was expected to start in mid-2013. In April 2011 it was announced the class would be named after the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland. This is the first time that the name of an Irish river has been used for a class of RNLI lifeboat.
The Shannon launch and recovery system (SLARS) was developed to launch and recover the 18-tonne Shannon-class RNLI lifeboat. [3] [4] SLARS SC-T08 with the St Ives lifeboat Nora Stachura. The lifeboat is launched, and recovered, bow-first. The carriage, mounted on tracked wheels, is used to transport a lifeboat from boathouse to sea.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution have a fleet of 332 lifeboats and 112 relief boats stationed at 233 lifeboat stations around the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The following classes of lifeboat serve the organisation.
Swanage Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station [1] located on Peveril Point in the town of Swanage in Dorset, England.It operates two lifeboats, the Shannon-class All-weather lifeboat 13-13 George Thomas Lacy (ON 1320) and the D-class (IB1) inshore lifeboat (ILB) Roy Norgrove (D-884).
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) in 1828. [1] Re-established by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1884, the station currently operates an Shannon-class All-weather lifeboat, 13-35 Frank and Brenda Winter (ON 1342), on station since 2021. [2]
2016 saw the arrival of a replacement D-class (IB1) Inshore Lifeboat Akira (D-802). [5] In 2019 it was announced that the RNLI planned to build a purpose-built new facility further along the shoreline that will be capable of housing a Shannon-class lifeboat. [6] The Anstruther crew featured on a BBC documentary Saving Lives At Sea in 2019. [7]
Dunmore East Lifeboat Station is located on West Wharf, at the harbour of Dunmore East, County Waterford, on the south coast of Ireland. A lifeboat station was opened here by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1884. [1] Since 2021, it has operated the All-weather Shannon-class lifeboat, 13-41 William and Agnes Wray (ON 1348). [1]
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) in 1829. [1] Re-established by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1868, the station currently operates a Shannon-class All-weather lifeboat, 13-42 Ann and James Ritchie II (ON 1349), on station since 2022. [2]