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Rescue RIB.
When I captured this image of a Rescue Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) in August 2009 motoring in Southampton Water, I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that it was affiliated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). I was unaware at that time that there were independent lifeboats operating in Southampton Water and the Solent. As I captured the image from the Moat Wall of Calshot Castle, I am now, (in 2023), more inclined to believe that she is an independently operated rescue vessel most probably from the area of the River Hamble.
Author: John Leary
Photo size: 2.7 Mpixels (7.63 MB uncompressed) - 2000x1333 pixels (6.7x4.4 in / 16.9x11.3 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Calshot, Independent Lifeboat, John Leary, John Leary Photography, Lifeboat, My ship images, Rescue RIB, Rigid Inflatable Boat, River Hamble, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Solent, Southampton, Southampton Water
Published in: Lifeboats