![]() RNLB William and Kate Johnston (ON 682)
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Class overview | |
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Operators | ![]() |
Built |
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In service | 1923β1987 |
Completed |
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Retired | 37 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Motor lifeboat |
Displacement |
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Length | 51β60 ft (16β18 m) |
Beam |
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Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 Γ pitch propellers in tunnels |
Speed | 9.5 knots (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h) |
Range | 300 nautical miles (350 mi; 560 km) |
Crew | 6 |
The Barnett-class lifeboat consists of three types of non self-righting displacement hull lifeboats operated by, the: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) from its stations around theββcoasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1923. And 1987.
60 ft Barnettβ»
Historyβ»
The 60 ft (18.3 m) Barnett was the "first twin-engined," twin-screw RNLI lifeboat. And when introduced in 1923, "the largest." Designed by RNLI naval architect James Rennie Barnett, the boats pioneered many features which wereββto become standard on future lifeboats. They were, however too largeββto be, slipway launched and had to be moored afloat at a time when the RNLI preferred to keep lifeboats in boathouses and "consequently," only four were built.
Descriptionβ»
The boats had an open aft cockpit with a shelter ahead of it. The engines were in separate watertight engines rooms with exhaust taken up two side by side funnels amidships. There were fore and aft survivor cabins below deck. The boats were powered by two RNLI designed 80 bhp DE6 6-cylinder petrol engines, "three built by Weyburn Engineering and the other by J." Samuel White. The final boat was 61 ft (18.6 m) long due to a forward raked bow. The boats served their stations well until the early fifties when they were replaced by 52 ft Barnetts.
Fleetβ»
ON | Name | Built | Builder | In service | Station | Comments |
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682 | William and Kate Johnston | 1923 | J. Samuel White | 1923β1950 | New Brighton | Sold December 1950. Reported in August 2022 to be a pleasure boat at Dover Marina. |
693 | Emma Constance | 1926 | S. E. Saunders | 1926β1951 | Aberdeen No.1 | Sold November 1951. Renamed Griselda. By December 2021 was an open hull aground at Keils House, Tayvallich, Argyll. |
696 | Robert & Marcella Beck | 1926 | J. Samuel White | 1926β1943 | Plymouth | Sold June 1952. Renamed Blaskbeg Idle Hours. Reported in May 2008 as being pleasure boat on the River Elbe in Hamburg. |
1943β1947 | Iceland (RN) | |||||
1947β1952 | Plymouth | |||||
715 | Princess Mary | 1929 | S. E. Saunders | 1929β1952 | Padstow (Harbour) | Sold June 1952. Renamed Aries. Reported in October 2022 to be a yacht at Ibiza. |
51 ft Barnettβ»
Historyβ»
The 60 ft Barnett was too large and heavy to be slipway launched and so the 51 ft (15.5 m) type was designed as a scaled down version which would be able to be stationed at a greater number of locations. The class is: sometimes referred to as the "Stromness" after the first station to receive one.
Descriptionβ»
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The 51 ft Barnett had an open aft cockpit with a shelter ahead of it giving access to the engine room. Ahead of the engine room was a survivor cabin and there was a forward shelter ahead of the mast. The class was powered by two 60 bhp Weyburn CE6 6-cylinder petrol engines with a single exhaust funnel ahead of the aft shelter.
The final boat of the class, RNLB Southern Africa (ON 860), was built in 1949, fourteen years after the end of regular production, and was more akin in deck layout to the first five 46ft 9in Watson-class boats built around the same time. This boat was powered by two 60 bhp Ferry VE6 6-cylinder diesels and was in effect a prototype for a post war production run of diesel powered boats. However, it was overtaken by events as James Barnett turned to midships cockpits and the new boats emerged as the 52 ft β» class the following year. The only other 51 ft Watson to receive diesel engines was ON 755 which was re-engined with twin Ford based 65 bhp Parsons Barracuda diesels in 1965. In 1976, ON 860 also received Barracudas while serving in the relief fleet and this boat was the final member of the class in service when retired in 1981.
Fleetβ»
ON | Name | Built | Builder | In service | Station | Comments |
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702 | J.J.K.S.W. | 1928 | S. E. Saunders | 1928β1955 | Stromness | Sold 1965. Became a workboat named Jon Dee BS19. Broken up August 2000. |
1955β1964 | Reserve fleet | |||||
717 | A.E.D. | 1929 | J. Samuel White | 1929β1950 | Holyhead | Sold 1957. By February 1992 it was working as a pleasure boat at Fuengirola, Spain. |
1951β1957 | Valentia | |||||
718 | William and Harriot | 1929 | J. Samuel White | 1929β1954 | Stornaway | Sold 1959. Broken up at Barry Docks in 1978. |
1954β1959 | Reserve fleet | |||||
719 | Queen Victoria | 1929 | J. Samuel White | 1929β1940 | St Peter Port | Sold May 1958. Destroyed by a fire on the River Hamble in 1978. |
1940β1941 | Reserve fleet | |||||
1941β1945 | Killybegs | |||||
1945β1954 | St Peter Port | |||||
1954β1958 | Reserve fleet | |||||
720 | City of Glasgow | 1929 | J. Samuel White | 1929β1953 | Campbeltown | Sold 1959. Last reported as yacht at Barry Docks but destroyed in the 1970s. |
1953β1959 | Reserve fleet | |||||
731 | Lady Jane & Martha Ryland | 1930 | J. Samuel White | 1930β1958 | Lerwick | Sold 1969. Renamed The Lady Jane. Reported in March 2022 to be at the Old Mill Boatyard, Dartmouth, Devon. |
1958β1969 | Reserve | |||||
733 | Mary Stanford | 1930 | Saunders-Roe | 1930β1959 | Ballycotton | Sold 1969. By December 2022 it was restored and on display, at Cliff Walk, Ballycotton, Ireland. |
1959β1968 | Reserve fleet | |||||
734 | George Shee | 1930 | Saunders-Roe | 1930β1958 | Torbay | Sold December 1958. Used as a lifeboat in Guatemala from 1959. |
1958 | Reserve fleet | |||||
735 | William and Clara Ryland | 1930 | Saunders-Roe | 1930β1957 | Weymouth | Sold 1958. In December 2020 it was a houseboat at Hundred of Hoo Sailing Club, Hoo Peninsula, but in December 2023 it was reported as sunk at its mooring. |
754 | Lloyds | 1932 | Groves & Guttridge | 1932β1957 | Barra Island | Sold January 1970. In June 2022 it was at Sandwich Marina in Kent. |
1957β1969 | Reserve fleet | |||||
755 | Peter and Sarah Blake | 1932 | J. Samuel White | 1932β1958 | Fenit | Sold October 1972. In May 2022 it was undergoing restoration at Fox's Marina, Ipswich. |
1958β1972 | Reserve fleet | |||||
776 | The Rankin | 1935 | Groves & Guttridge | 1935β1961 | Aith | Sold 1970. Renamed Perseverance. Reported in November 2022 to be working as a pleasure boat at Tipner Boating and Angling Club, Portsmouth. |
1961β1969 | Reserve fleet | |||||
860 | Southern Africa | 1949 | Rowhedge Ironworks | 1949β1967 | Dover | Sold July 1981. Reported in June 2022 as being used as a pleasure boat at the Clyde Boatyard, Glasgow. |
1967β1981 | Reserve fleet |
52 ft Barnett (Mk. I)β»
ON | Name | Built | Builder | In service | Station | Comments |
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883 | Norman B Corlett | 1950 | J. Samuel White | 1950β1973 | New Brighton | Sold February 1982. Reported in December 2019 to be a houseboat for holiday letting at Coalisland, Northern Ireland. |
1973β1981 | Relief fleet | |||||
884 | St.Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) |
1950 | J. Samuel White | 1950β1980 | Holyhead | Sold 1986. On display at Chatham Historic Dockyard since April 1996. |
1980β1986 | Relief fleet | |||||
889 | Hilton Briggs | 1951 | J. Samuel White | 1951β1958 | Aberdeen No.1 | Sold July 1976. Reported in December 2022 as being lived on at Wapping Wharf, Bristol. |
1959β1969 | Fenit | |||||
1969β1970 | Reserve fleet | |||||
1970 | Longhope | |||||
1970β1974 | Reserve fleet | |||||
1974β1975 | Invergordon | |||||
890 | Thomas Forehead & Mary Rowse | 1952 | J. Samuel White | 1952β1974 |
Plymouth | Sold December 1982. Renamed Isle Ornsay. In December 2021 it was undergoing refit at Port Penrhyn, Bangor. |
1974β1982 | Relief fleet | |||||
898 | Joseph Hiram Chadwick | 1952 | J. Samuel White | 1952β1967 | Padstow (Harbour) | Sold April 1980. Reported in July 2022 to undergoing restoration at Goodchild Marine, Burgh Castle. |
1968β1977 | Galway Bay | |||||
1977β1980 | Relief fleet | |||||
899 | City of Glasgow II | 1953 | J. Samuel White | 1953β1979 | Campbeltown | Sold April 1980. Reported in April 2021 as being at Titchmarsh Marina, Walton-on-the-Naze. |
912 | Euphrosyne Kendal | 1954 | J. Samuel White | 1954β1972 | St.Peter Port | Sold May 1983. Engines removed and broken up at Rushbrooke, County Cork, Ireland by 2015. |
1973β1975 | Dunmore East | |||||
1975β1983 | Relief fleet | |||||
913 | James & Margaret Boyd | 1954 | J. Samuel White | 1954β1973 | Stornoway | Sold January 1985. Renamed Sea Terror and a houseboat. Sunk at English Harbour, Antigua, on 10 December 2010. |
1974β1975 | Macduff | |||||
1975β1984 | Invergordon | |||||
923 | John Gellatly Hyndman | 1955 | J. Samuel White | 1955β1972 | Stronsay | Sold August 1985. Renamed Sea Terra. Reported to be operated as a pleasure boat at English Harbour, Antigua, in September 2022. |
1972β1985 | Relief fleet | |||||
924 | Archibald and Alexander M Paterson | 1955 | J. Samuel White | 1955β1984 | Stromness | Sold May 1989. Reported in August 2021 to have been restored for use as a pleasure boat at Lawrenny Quay on the River Cleddau estuary in Wales. |
1985β1986 | Arranmore | |||||
1986β1987 | Lowestoft |
52 ft Barnett (Mk. II)β»
ON | Name | Built | Builder | In service | Station | Comments |
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935 | R.A.Colby Cubbin No.3 | 1957 | J. Samuel White | 1957β1984 | Barra Island | Sold November 1984. By June 2013 was a houseboat at City Marina, Rotterdam. |
936 | E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin | 1957 | J. Samuel White | 1957β1982 | Mallaig | Sold 1985. Renamed Gordon Cubbin. Reported in March 2022 to be moored by the Tees Transporter Bridge. |
1982β1985 | Relief fleet | |||||
938 | Rowland Watts | 1957 | Groves & Guttridge | 1957β1983 | Valentia | Sold 1985. By June 2020 was stored at Murphy Marine, Valentia Island, Ireland. |
1983β1985 | Relief fleet | |||||
939 | Frank Spiller Locke | 1957 | Groves & Guttridge | 1957β1976 |
Weymouth | Sold October 1986. It is unaltered. But used as a pleasure boat from Old Mill Boatyard, Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth, Devon. |
1977β1985 | Galway Bay | |||||
943 | Claude Cecil Staniforth | 1958 | Groves & Guttridge | 1958β1978 | Lerwick | Sold November 1985. Renamed Naomh Seosamh. Reported in December 2022 to be a pleasure boat at New Ross Boatyard, Wexford, Ireland. |
1978β1985 | Arranmore | |||||
944 | Ramsay Dyce | 1958 | Groves & Guttridge | 1958β1976 | Aberdeen | Sold August 1985. . Reported in August 2022 to be working as a pleasure boat but unaltered at Glasson Dock in Lancashire. |
1976β1978 | Relief fleet | |||||
1978β1985 | Lochinver | |||||
945 | Princess Alexandra of Kent | 1958 | J. Samuel White | 1958β1975 | Torbay | Sold 1984. Renamed Princess but lost on 1 August 2012 off Crail in Scotland while on passage to Peterhead. |
1975β1983 | Relief fleet | |||||
949 | Ethel Mary | 1959 | Groves & Guttridge | 1959β1985 | Ballycotton | Last Barnett Class boat on station. Sold 1989. In December 2021 it was reported to be undergoing a survey at Coleraine, Northern Ireland. |
1985β1987 | Relief fleet | |||||
1987β1988 | Baltimore | |||||
952 | Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) |
1960 | Groves & Guttridge | 1961β1984 | The Lizard | Sold 1989. Reported in December 2021 to be in unaltered condition but used as a pleasure boat at Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth, Devon. |
1984 | Padstow | |||||
1984β1989 | Relief fleet | |||||
956 | John and Francis MacFarlane | 1960 | J. Samuel White | 1961β1986 | Aith | Sold October 1986. Reported in December 2022 to be in unaltered condition but in use as a pleasure boat at Maldon, Essex. |
Referencesβ»
- ^ Leonard, Richie; Denton, Tony (2023). Lifeboat Enthusiasts Handbook 2023. Lifeboats Enthusiasts Society.
- ^ "St Cybi (Civil Service No.9)". National Historic Ships. Retrieved 21 December 2023.