Watson-class lifeboat

45ft 6in Watson RNLB Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) (ON 688)
Class overview
Builders	S. E. Saunders, Cowes J. Samuel White, Cowes Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall Summers & Payne, Southampton
Operators	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Built	1888–1963
In service	1888–1991
Completed	213

The Watson-class lifeboat is a design of wooden lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1888 and 1991. There were several variations over the years but all the boats had hulls that conformed to a design by George Lennox Watson, the RNLI's naval architect from 1887 until his death in 1904.