The 46 ft 9in Watson-class lifeboat was a non-self-righting displacement hull lifeboat, built between 1947 and 1956, and operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution between 1947 and 1989.
City of Bradford III (ON 911)
Watson-class lifeboat
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The Watson-class lifeboat is a design of non-self-righting lifeboat, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1888 and 1991. Ther
46ft 9in Watson-class lifeboat
…the 37 ft Oakleys. This allowed a slimmer, lighter foremast to be fitted. The exhaust system on some boats like the Howard Marryat remained unchanged. Watson-class lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats…
46ft 9in Watson-class RNLB North Foreland (Civil Service No.11) (ON 888) in the RNLI Heritage Collection at Chatham Historic Dockyard.