Leverburgh RNLI's new lifeboat enters service

Image source, Nicholas Leach

Image caption, Leverburgh's new lifeboat, the RNLB Stella and Humfrey Berkeley 13-25

Leverburgh RNLI's new 拢2.2m lifeboat has entered service.

The station on Harris, in the Western Isles, had been using a Mersey class boat.

Its new boat, called RNLB Stella and Humfrey Berkeley 13-25, is a Shannon class, the RNLI's most agile and manoeuvrable all-weather lifeboat.

Shannon class boats are propelled by water jets instead of propellers. Leverburgh's boat was constructed in Poole in Dorset.