Shannon Class RNLI Lifeboat - Beaching Recovery at Dungeness 

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Very sorry to hear that, and I'd be happy to send you the video. Please email me at mikepepler@gmail.com to make arrangements.

Very sorry for the loss of your dad. I lost my dad few years ago to cancer as well.

I’m sorry for your loss

Sorry for your loss!!

disgusting way to treat any boat, especially when the public pays the bills.

It's designed to be able to do this. Safest way to get ashore in rough weather, and quickest if time is of the essence for a rescued person.

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They did say it may shorten the life of the hull... But I think they only do it for high tide recovery.

You're right, I think they normally back the trailer into the sea. But because of the shingle bank, at certain states of the tide it may be more difficult to do that. Especially in bad weather, as you said.

You been spying on me again?

Yes

Took the words straight out of my mouth Jesse..... damn sight cheaper than regular dry docking

Yes, very impressive piece of equipment!

The boat costs £2.3m and the SLARS (Shannon Launch and Recovery System) costs £1.5m

Nothing to do with the Royal Navy. Checkout the RNLI website.

@@SilverWrinkly Yeah I know. What I'm saying is even the RN has it's heros. Those heros are the RNLI.

@@oldthrasbarg641 Your comment still reads as though you're saying the RNLI is a branch of the RN?

@@SilverWrinkly oh well balls. I'm only a sailor what do I know

@@oldthrasbarg641 Now you've made me feel bad. I'm sorry I got you wound up. Sincerely, I wish you a Merry Christmas.

Fingers crossed

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Yes, but they recoat it with some abrasion resistant stuff regularly.

No dock for it there, the shingle moves every year.

I don't know the construction details, but I doubt they do it often. Occasional training and then actual emergencies I guess.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

They're very impressive! I think they use the same engine as the lifeboat itself, to simplify maintenance, though just one while the lifeboat uses two.

😂

Then it's pointing the right way for the next launch...

Before they hit the shingle? Though you can see water still coming out the back once it's beached, so I'm not sure.

@@mikepepler The boat is jet powered, so although the engines are shut down before hitting the beach, there is probably still quite a quantity of water to drain from the pumps.

The diesel engines need a time period to cool down,, primarily the turbos. The jet pump shafts are stopped before hitting the shore, just some water is still going through the pumps. I sure hope they get all the loose gravel out before relaunch.

They got a Shannon boat in 2014, one of the first few deployed.

You may be being confused by Littlestone, which is only 3 miles down the coast, which has an Atlantic. Littlestone are just beyond the northern edge of the shingle area of Dungeness, rather than at the tip of the ness, with Lydd in between.

Yeah, the shingle is very deep there, so not much to worry about. I expect they check for driftwood with metal embedded in it though!

I think so, though maybe they resurface the hull? I don't think they do it very often, normally the tractor will be able to recover the boat.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

@@mikepepler I found out recently that the boat has Polyurea coating.

I gather that's used on canal boats too.

@@mikepepler Probably can be but i don't think it's widespread. Barges are made of steel and rarely exceed 4mph.

Must be. It's built to take it, but I assume they don't do it too often - I think this was a case of combining a training exercise with a public display.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

I guess it might, though they'd probably be more damaging to the hull, as the shingle can move as the boat hits it.

@@mikepepler amazing

It does.

@@CymruEmergencyResponder thx

It's built to take it. But I expect it needs regular maintenance...

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

😂 They have to repaint it with some abrasion resistant stuff quite frequently!

There's no need for a dock here, Dungeness doesn't have a lot of people or industry, apart from a nuclear power plant, and it has a railway to it. And there are harbours a few miles away east and west of here. So they wouldn't go to the expense of building a dock just for the lifeboat. But presumably this is the spot the lifeboat needs to be at to provide coverage for emergencies.

Any sort of dock would have to be built hundreds of meters inland because of the shifting stones over time, it wouldnt last long . And would cost millions.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

The water can be over half a mile away on the lowest tides… A dock would be pretty useless, and so would the lifeboat.

In rough seas and depending on the tide state this is sometimes the safest way to land. This was a practice, of course.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

I think they may cut the engines before it hits the shingle? They also don't normally land this fast, bit of a special for the open day.

За то судно прослужит в 20-40 раз дольше, а тут эти дегенераты киль за год в труху сотрут. Купили дорогущий трактор с платформой, судно, а мозгов как не было, так и не стало.

@@serzhiko0 эти дегенераты клепают суда пачками и списуют вполне рабочие по причине морального устаревания . А не дегенераты восстанавливают то что дед во вторую мировую отжал , потому что сами не в состоянии построить судно .

Doubt they do this often

Here's how they turn it round. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bBzrxh3ZkgU.html

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I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

It's built to take it, it's the only way to come ashore at Dungeness. But they do have to repaint it with a protective layer regularly.

Sometimes this is the safest way to get ashore, especially if they're in a hurry.

Very few people live here, not enough to justify a harbour. There's some fishing boats, but they launch directly off the beach too, using a tractor or a winch. The lifeboat is here because it's sadly a busy area for people getting in trouble at sea.

in the UK we have tides ...

Good point! Significant tidal range here, such that the harbour in Rye is only usable for a few hours each day.

They said they do it if they have a critically injured patient and need to land fast and/or the sea is rough enough that crew operating the trailer would be endangered by the boat. I doubt they do it often

@@mikepepler That makes perfect sense.

I talked to some of volunteers at the station a few days ago. Apparently they always land the boat by beaching it, it's the only way at this site because of the gradient of the shingle. But a normal landing is less dramatic than this one, which was a special for the open day. The crew regularly repaint the hull with a special paint containing kevlar to cope with hitting the shingle repeatedly.

It's built to take it. Just needs repainting regularly.

A fair point, but the RNLI just focus on saving lives, they don't discriminate based on nationality, skin colour or anything else.

The RNLI land them in the UK for a reason.

@@CymruEmergencyResponder what's that reason ? As it had most the country fuming

Depends who you know. Most people I know aren't fuming, and I live nearby.

@@danhurley6152 landing them in France means that they would try again, meaning twice as many call outs for the lifeboats, putting further strain on the charity. Landing them in the UK means that they can have their asylum claims heard and processed.

It’s the charity that saves lives at sea, there not going out there and asking for your passport before they rescue you, what makes you think an Africans life is less important than an English life. In the words of a brave world war 2 veteran “fuck off Hitler”.

fuck you!!!

@@dogfood61188 Sorry but what the hell don't you understand about money donations from England staying in England to save people in England??

@@bazzer621 OK ill go slow for you. The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea, that's kind of there motto. There not the charity that saves lives in British territorial waters, or the charity that saves the lives of British passport holders. The RNLI is the charity that save lives at sea. They never lied to you and said there only going to save British people or that the money will only go to British business or cause, in fact if you looked at there annually published cost break down you would have seen them clearly telling you that a tiny percentage of donations are spent saving lives outside British territorial waters. Saving lives in foreign countries also provides crews with valuable training and opportunities for inter-agency cooperation, skills and techniques that those crews bring back to the UK. So in answer to your question i suppose that what i don't understand about British money from donations staying in England to save people in England is why you believed it would. Although I suspect that your views are driven more by your own racial prejudices than common sense and facts, i still hope that things are a little clearer for you now Barry.

@@dogfood61188 I'll go even slower for you it's called the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for a reason and it's about time they stopped lavishing our money outside the UK! I for one will never donate any more money to them until they stop sending it abroad! They have the best of everything and I don't begrudge them that but sending my money abroad is a no no to me! It's about time we stopped giving money to everyone who asks for it! Charity begins at home! Just a silly question are you called "dogfood" for a reason? 😂😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Let's hope you don't ever need them then fella

Yep

The RNLI is not funded by the taxpayer. There is no where to just leave it in the water so it is recovered back to the boathouse. No piss taken.

What a dimwitted comment, you clearly know f*ck all about anything to do with the rnli

Spot on.