X-class lifeboat

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Class overview
Operators:	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
General characteristics
Length:	2.5 m (8.2 ft)
Range:	Within sight of ALB
Complement:	2

The X-class lifeboats is a class of small inflatable boat operated by the RNLI of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The X-Class Lifeboat is used as a small tender carried on board the RNLI All Weather lifeboats that serve the shores of the UK.

The X class is normally found carried onboard Tyne, Mersey (Station option), and Shannon class lifeboats (Station option).

When in use it carries up to a crew of two and is primarily used for assisting in cliff incidents where the casualty is near the water. and the All Weather Lifeboat can not get into the base of the cliffs due to rocks.

Other small boats operated by the RNLI include the Y class lifeboat, the Arancia class Beach Rescue and the XP class lifeboat.

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RNLI Fleet

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

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

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