44' Coast Guard MLB (Motor Lifeboat)

The 44' MLB was designed by the U.S. Coast Guard, with work starting on the prototype (USCG 44300) in April 1961, which was completed on the 9 March 1962. A total of 110, 44' MLB's were built for the U.S. Coast Guard, with the last boat (USCG 44409) being completed in 1972. There was a great interest shown in this self-righting 44' MLB at the Ninth International Lifeboat Conference in Scotland in 1963, which eventually resulted in several countries adopting the design with some modifications for their own lifesaving organizations.

The RNLI in Britain acquired the USCG 44328 in 1964 and built a further 21, naming the class "Waveney" after the river in which the first boats were built. The Canadian Coast Guard recived the USCG 44353 in 1966 and built a further 17. The Italian Coast Guard purchased the USCG 44337 and USCG 44338 while the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue and the Portuguese Institute for Lifesaving both built two boats. A further ten boats were built under licence in England for Iranian Coast Guard, bringing the total in all to 162. As a measure of the success of the design of this boat, over half of the decommissioned US Coast Guard 44 MLB's have been transfer to foreign maritime services, under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program and more than half of the RNLI's Waveney's have now started a new era of lifesaving in Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay and Canada, nearly 40 years on!!!

Specifications:
Length: 28.7"
Beam: 8.3"
Height: 18.1" 2 x 540 motor
2 channel radio and receiver
30 amp ESC
Recommend 7.2v 3000mah battery (not included)
Simply add batteries to the included radio and battery to the boat and you're ready to go!