Tamar Class Lifeboats
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The Tamar class is one of the most modern all-weather lifeboat classes currently in service with the RNLI. The Tamar is fitted with an integrated electronic Systems and Information Management System (SIMS) so that the crew can monitor, operate and control many of the boat’s systems directly from their shock-mitigating seats, improving their safety.
The bespoke seats enhance crew comfort and safety. They also incorporate essential controls such as throttles and joystick with the trackball for the SIMS screen close to hand. The Tamar’s propellers and rudders lie in partial tunnels set into the hull that, along with steel-lined main and bilge keels, provide excellent protection from damage in shallow water or slipway operations.
In addition to her twin engines, the lifeboat is fitted with a hydraulic-powered bow thruster for improved manoeuvrability. The Tamar carries a Y boat, an inflatable powered daughter boat housed under the aft deck, which can be deployed from a hinged door in the transom. The Y boat has a 15hp outboard engine and is used in moderate conditions to access areas the lifeboat cannot reach.
The Tamar class has replaced most of the Tyne class lifeboats in service with the RNLI. The first Irish station to receive a Tamar class was Kilmore Quay in October 2010. Baltimore received a Tamar class lifeboat in March 2012.
Tamar Class Facts
Introduced: 2005
Length: 16.3m
Width: 5.3m
Load: 32 tonnes
Launch Type: Slipway or afloat
Fuel Capacity: 4,600 litres
Crew: 7
Range: 250 nautical miles
Max Speed: 25 Knots
Engines: 2 x Caterpiller C18 marine diesel; 1,001hp each at 2,300rpm
O.N. | Op. No. | Name | Year Built | Service History | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1251 | - | - | 2000 | Prototype Tamar class lifeboat. Trials 2000 to 2006 | (1) |
1280 | 16-01 | Peter and Lesley-Jane Nicholson | 2005 | Relief 2005 to date | |
1281 | 16-02 | Haydn Miller | 2005 | Tenby 2006 to date | |
1282 | 16-03 | The Misses Robertson of Kintail | 2006 | Peterhead 2006 to date | |
1283 | 16-04 | Spirit of Padstow | 2006 | Padstow 2006 to date | |
1284 | 16-05 | Helen Comrie | 2006 | Longhope 2006 to date | |
1286 | 16-06 | Frank and Anne Wilkinson | 2007 | Relief 2007 to date | |
1287 | 16-07 | Lester | 2008 | Cromer 2008 to date | |
1288 | 16-08 | Grace Dixon | 2008 | Barrow 2008 to date | |
1289 | 16-09 | Batlic Exchange III | 2008 | Salcome 2008 to date | |
1290 | 16-10 | Edward and Barbara Prigmore | 2008 | Relief 2008 to date | |
1291 | 16-11 | Mark Mason | 2009 | Angle 2009 to date | |
1292 | 16-12 | George Sullivan | 2009 | St Helier 2009 to date | |
1293 | 16-13 | Victor Freeman | 2010 | Relief 2009 to date | |
1294 | 16-14 | City of London III | 2010 | Sennen Cove 2010 to date | |
1295 | 16-15 | Enid Collett | 2010 | Shoreham Harbour 2010 to date | |
1296 | 16-16 | Molly Hunt | 2010 | Appledore to 2011 to date | |
1297 | 16-17 | Alfred Albert Williams | 2010 | Bembridge 2011 to date | |
1298 | 16-18 | Killarney | 2010 | Kilmore Quay 27/10/10 to date | |
1299 | 16-19 | Irene Muriel Rees | 2011 | Walton & Frinton 2011 to date | |
1300 | 16-20 | Rose | 2011 | The Lizard 2011 to date | |
1301 | 16-21 | John Buchanan Barr | 2011 | Portpatrick to 2011 to date | |
1302 | 16-22 | Alan Massey | 2011 | Baltimore 15/02/12 to date | |
1303 | 16-23 | Diamond Jubilee | 2012 | Eastbourne 2012 to date | |
1304 | 16-24 | John D Spicer | 2012 | Porthdinllaen 2012 to date | |
1305 | 16-25 | Kiwi | 2012 | Moelfre 2013 to date | |
1306 | 16-26 | Norah Wortley | 2013 | St Davids 2013 to date | |
1307 | 16-27 | Roy Barker IV | 2013 | The Mumbles 2013 to date |
Lifeboats highlighted in GREEN are/were based at Irish Lifeboat stations.
Notes
(1) Prototype Tamar class. Sold in 2006 to Kent Police as a patrol boat named Princess Alexandra III. Sold in 2014 for use as workboat based at Potton Creek, Essex. In 2017 sold for use as FPS boat named Lemerye1 in Mauritania
O.N. is the RNLI's Official Number of the boat
Op.No. is the RNLI's Operational Number of the boat carried on the hull
