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In 2009 the SNSM was responsible for about half of all sea rescue operations and saved 5,400 lives in 2816 call-outs and assisted 2140 boats in distress. The service has 41 all-weather rescue boats, 34 first-class rescue boats, 76 second-class lifeboats and 20 light rescue boats (and an amphibious rescue boat), and many inflatable boats.
AVR 661 is an R-1 type United States Air Force "crash boat", a boat used in air-sea rescues. [2] It is 85 feet long and has two Packard Marine 4M-2500 engines of 1500 horsepower, instead of the normal three that PT boats usually were equipped with.
On February 5, 2011, SAFE Boats International won a U.S. government contract of $180,611,987.33 to provide 470 Response Boat-Small (RB-S) boats to U.S. Coast Guard shore units in order to perform law enforcement missions. It will also include 20 boats for Customs and Border Protection and 10 boats for the U.S. Navy, for a total of 500 boats. [9]
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Swedish Sea Rescue Society's Rescue Gad Rausing, stationed in Skillinge, outside Mälarhusen 2013. A rescue craft is a boat, ship or aircraft used in rescuing. The most common are lifeboats for inshore and closer-to-shore rescues, with helicopters and ships used further out. [citation needed]
The PCE-842-class patrol craft class was the basis of an armed rescue ship. These were built on the hull of the PCE (Patrol Craft Escort) by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. in Chicago, Illinois and classified first as APRs (Convoy rescue craft) and then as PCERs (Patrol Craft Escort Rescue). Of the 54 PCERs ordered, 13 were laid down ...
French salvage tug Abeille Bourbon which also serves as an emergency tow vessel (ETV) USNS Grapple Example of modern naval rescue and salvage ship. A salvage tug, also known historically as a wrecking tug, is a specialized type of tugboat that is used to rescue ships that are in distress or in danger of sinking, or to salvage ships that have already sunk or run aground.
The Defender-class boat, also called Response Boat–Small (RB-S) and Response Boat–Homeland Security (RB-HS), is a standard boat introduced by the United States Coast Guard in 2002. The boats serve a variety of missions, including search and rescue , port security and law enforcement duties and replaces a variety of smaller non-standard boats.