Norfolk and Suffolk-class lifeboat
RNLB James Leith (ON 607) in the RNLI Heritage Collection at Chatham Historic Dockyard | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Norfolk and Suffolk-class |
| Builders | Various |
| Operators | RNLI and others |
| Built | 1807–1925 |
| In service | 1807–1953 |
| General characteristics - sailing lifeboats | |
| Length | 30 to 46 ft (9.1 to 14.0 m) |
| Beam | 10 to 12 ft (3.0 to 3.7 m) |
| Crew | 16–22 |
| General characteristics - motor lifeboats | |
| Displacement | 14-17 tons |
| Length | 46 ft 6 in (14.17 m) |
| Beam | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Installed power | 40 bhp to 80 bhp |
| Propulsion | Single screw |
| Speed | 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) |
| Range | ~115 nmi (132 mi; 213 km) |
| Crew | 13 |
Norfolk and Suffolk-class lifeboats were a class of lifeboat operated almost exclusively off the coast of East Anglia. The first boats found favour with the various rescue societies, such as the Norfolk Shipwreck Association and the Suffolk Humane Society, as well as companies of Boatmen, such as the Gorleston Rangers, before being adopted and continued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).