At 13.55 on Sunday 4 May 2025, Troon RNLI's new Shannon class all-weather lifeboat was welcomed into Troon for the first time ...

Since then, it has been launched 212 times. Nick White, Littlehampton RNLI's lifeboat operations manager, said: "D-Class lifeboats like Ray of Hope are known as the workhorses of the RNLI.

The vessel was taken out of the water and stored in Lowestoft during the summer of 2024, and taken to Falmouth, Cornwall later that year so crew could be trained on the Shannon class lifeboat.

The lifeboat was then officially named D-900 Glenis Joan Felstead, by Glenis's husband, Trevor. Glenis grew up in a village called Edwinstowe in North Nottinghamshire, next to Sherwood Forest and ...

Instead, the sailor managed to get off the yacht onto Hestan Island where they were picked up by the Kippford crew in their D class lifeboat Ronnie Sinclair. They returned to the village around 2am.