The 47-Foot motor Lifeboat is designed as a first response rescue resource for the Coast Guard in high seas, surf and heavy weather environments.

That’s true even in extremely gnarly conditions. Crews aboard the 47-foot Motor Lifeboat, the Coast Guard’s primary nearshore fast-response rescue platform, will head into 50-knot winds through ...

On scene weather conditions were 10- to 14-foot seas and winds of 45-knots.A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat (MLB) crew from Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, an MH-60 Jayhawk crew from Coast Guard Air ...

The U.S. Coast Guard recently accepted the Birdon America's first upgraded 47-foot Motor Lifeboat (47 MLB) at the agency's… Thursday, June 26, 2025.

A subsidiary of marine engineering company Birdon has won a potential 10-year, $191.1M contract to support the U.S. Coast Guard’s service life extension program for 47-foot Motor Lifeboats. USCG ...

Petty Officer 1st Class Bradd Beckett, boatswain mate (boat driver) and Surfman (highly-qualified boat driver) at Cape Disappointment, along with his crew, races down to the 47-foot motor lifeboat.

Washington will see money for a number of Coast Guard items, including a new icebreaker and new lifesaving vessels for Grays Harbor. The funding will help to replace 52-foot Motor Lifeboats that ...

As a surfman, Duffy is qualified to take a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat out in 20-foot breaking surf with 30-foot seas and 50-knot winds, reaching the boat’s operational limits. “This has been a goal for me ...

A 47-foot motor lifeboat crew and the New Jersey State Police were dispatched to a 25-foot recreational boat around 1 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard said.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flight mechanic lowers a line to the crew of a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat from Station Tillamook Bay during a training evolution in the Pacific Ocean near Garibaldi, Ore ...

L ast week the U.S. Coast Guard Station Grays Harbor’s 47-foot motor lifeboat crew responded to a 62-foot fishing vessel, weighing well over 100 displacement tons, disabled and adrift 26 ...

The Coast Guard suspended the search Wednesday for a boater that went missing Tuesday off Salisbury Beach.The search was suspended following a first light search conducted by a 47-foot Motor ...