States Coast Guard operates four 52-foot Motor Lifeboats (MLBs), which supplement its fleet of 227 47-foot Motor Lifeboats. These vessels were built in the...
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The 44-foot motor lifeboat was the standard workhorse of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) rescue boat fleet. The 44′ MLB has been replaced by the...
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successor 52-foot Motor Lifeboats. As of 2019[update], the steel-hulled 52' MLBs continue in service. During the 1960s the Coast Guard replaced the 36-foot (11 m)...
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USCGC Triumph (category Motor lifeboats of the United States)
overturned. The 52-foot wooden-hulled motor lifeboats were replaced in the 1950s and 1960s by the steel-hulled 52-foot Motor Lifeboats. "Triumph, 1935"...
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Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment (redirect from Motor Lifeboat School at Cape Disappointment)
boats, including the 52-foot (16 m) motor lifeboat Triumph (52'-SPC-HWX), two 47-foot (14 m) motor lifeboats (47'-MLB), and two 29-foot (8.8 m) Defender class...
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Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912. The ship had 20 lifeboats that, in total, could accommodate 1,178...
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Guard's 36-foot motor lifeboat, its 44-foot motor lifeboat, and its 52-foot motor lifeboat, and helped design the current 47-foot motor lifeboat. McAdams...
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Self-righting (motor) lifeboat, built by Thames Ironworks, costing £3,145. Single 40 hp petrol engine, giving 150 miles at 7 knots. 40-foot 6in Watson-class...
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when the RNLI placed a motor-powered lifeboat at Tynemouth, followed soon after by the completion of the Piers. A motor lifeboat was far better placed...
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Roberts (ON 505), but this boat was soon replaced with a motor-powered 60-foot Barnett lifeboat, Emma Constance (ON 693), one of only three of this type...
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