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Our lifeboats and lifeboat stations

RNLI lifeboat crews protect hundreds of communities around the UK and Ireland through our 24-hour search and rescue service. To do so, they rely on the safest, most reliable lifeboats and modern stations to launch from.
A group shot of Anstruther lifeboat volunteers with their supporting families and community

Photo: RNLI / Nigel Millard

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About our lifeboats
Hoylake’s Shannon class lifeboat, Edmund Hawthorn Micklewood 13-06, being recovered by her launch and recovery tractor, Roland Hough
Our lifeboat fleet
With an active fleet of 349 lifeboats, we can reach people in all kinds of situations.
About our lifeboats
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Launch of Cosandra 13-12; the first Shannon class lifeboat to be built at our All-weather Lifeboat Centre
Building our lifeboats
Our lifeboats are built, repaired and maintained to the highest standards.
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About our stations
View from inside Moelfre Lifeboat Station of the station’s Tamar class lifeboat, Kiwi 16-25, being recovered up the slipway
Our lifeboat stations
Our 238 lifeboat stations protect and launch our lifeboats and house our crews.
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Aran Islands RNLI’s Severn class lifeboat, David Kirkaldy 17-06, powering through rough seas
Latest lifeboat launches
With an average of 24 callouts a day, there's most likely a lifeboat out right now.
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Lifeboat crew self-righting a D class lifeboat in RNLI College’s wave tank
Lifeboat crew training
RNLI training turns willing volunteer lifeboat crew into competent RNLI lifesavers.
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