{"id":9428,"date":"2021-03-19T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T11:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T11:45:15","slug":"rnli-atlantic-85-rib-tractor-launch-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/rnli-atlantic-85-rib-tractor-launch-and-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"RNLI Atlantic 85 RIB Tractor Launch and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Wrkej7B6SY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RNLI Redcar recently captured some excellent footage of their Atlantic 85 lifeboat, &#8216;Leicester Challenge III&#8217;, in launch and recovery with the Talus MB4H tractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The helm would normally reverse the lifeboat into the carriage for recovery, but in rough conditions like those seen here, a &#8216;net recovery&#8217; is used. The net catches the lifeboat while the crew members place harnesses on the cage so that the boat is not left behind when the tractor moves forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The carriage can then be lifted and rotated 180 degrees so that they are ready to relaunch in just minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year marks 100 years since the first tractor was used to pull a lifeboat, though it took a little while to be fully adopted, with the last horse-drawn lifeboat launching in 1936!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNLI Redcar recently captured some excellent footage of their Atlantic 85 lifeboat, &#8216;Leicester Challenge III&#8217;, in launch and recovery with the Talus MB4H tractor. The helm would normally reverse the lifeboat into the carriage for recovery, but in rough conditions like those seen here, a &#8216;net recovery&#8217; is used. The net catches the lifeboat while the crew members place harnesses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[516,79,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnli","category-atlantic","category-rescue","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}