Watson-class lifeboat

	46ft 9in Watson-class RNLB 'North Foreland (Civil Service No.11) (ON 888) in the RNLI Heritage Collection at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Class overview
Builders	Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company Blackwall, London; Summers & Payne, Southampton; S. E. Saunders Cowes; J. Samuel White Cowes;
Operators	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Preceded by	Watson-class P&S lifeboat
Succeeded by	Various
Built	1908–1963
In service	1909–1991
Completed	156
Retired	156

The Watson-class lifeboat is a design of non-self-righting 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, the RNLI's naval architect from 1887 until his death in 1904.