Watson-class P&S lifeboat

	38-foot Watson P&S lifeboat RNLB Charles Henry Ashley (ON 583) at Cemaes harbour, 2017
Class overview
Builders	Barrow Naval Co., Barrow; Henderson, Partick; Chambers and Colby, Lowestoft; R. McAlister of Dumbarton; Forrestt of Limehouse; Hollwey of Dublin; Reynolds of Lowestoft; S. Strickland of Dartmouth; Thames Ironworks, Blackwall; S. E. Saunders, Cowes;
Operators	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Built	1888–1915
In service	1888–1939
Completed	43
Retired	43
Preserved	3

The Watson-class P&S lifeboat is a design of wooden lifeboat, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1888 and 1991. There were several variations over the years but all the boats had hulls that conformed to a design by George Lennox Watson (30 October 1851 – 12 November 1904), the RNLI's naval architect from 1887 until his death in 1904.