C-class lifeboat

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Class overview

Builders:	Zodiac
Operators:	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
General characteristics
Length:	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Beam:	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:	2 x 40hp Mariner outboard engines
Speed:	26 kts
Complement:	4

The C-class lifeboat used Zodiac Grand Raid Mark IV's powered by twin 40hp outboards and was formerly operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was replaced by the D class lifeboat (EA16) and Atlantic 21.^[1]

References

Classes of Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats

Operational fleet

All-weather lifeboats	Mersey Severn Shannon Tamar Trent Tyne

Inshore lifeboats	B Class: Atlantic 75 Atlantic 85 D class: IB1 E Class: Mark I Mark II H Class (hovercraft)

Small inflatables	Arancia X-class XP-class Y-class

Historic lifeboats

Up to 10 knots	Barnett Liverpool Norfolk and Suffolk Oakley Peake Ramsgate Rother Solent Surf Watson

Above 10 knots	Arun Brede Clyde Thames Waveney Nelson

Inshore lifeboats	A Class: Hatch McLauchlan B Class: Atlantic 21 C Class: Zodiac IV D Class: EA16

Experimental lifeboats	Medina

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