HFF 6/11/20

All Weather Shannon Class Lifeboat named Frederick William Plaxton


Funded by: Mr F W Plaxton, The F W Plaxton Charitable Trust, The Ganton Furse Settlement and Mr Willaim Ranyard.

The Shannon-class lifeboat is the latest class of lifeboat currently being deployed to the RNLI fleet to serve the shores of the British Isles. The class is 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 RNLI

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways.