"LIFEBOAT SEA TRIALS"

Lifeboat "Victor Freeman" built 2010 and being put through her paces off Fairlie on the Clyde Estuary.

These Tamar class lifeboats are all-weather lifeboats (ALBs) operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. They have s a design of crew workstation with seats that can move up and down 20 centimetres (7.9 in) as the boat passes through rough seas at high speed, and a networked computerised Systems and Information Management System (SIMS) which allows the crew to monitor and control the boat entirely from within the wheelhouse.


Length: 16.3 metres
Beam: 5.3 metres
Draught: 1.4 metres
Displacement: 32 tonnes
Engines: 2 x Caterpillar C18 marine diesel 1,001hp each at 2,300rpm
Max speed: 25 knots
Range/endurance: 250 nautical miles
Crew number: 7
Survivor capacity: self righting: 44
Non self righting: 118