RNLB The Oddfellows (B-818)[1] is the current rigid-inflatable inshore lifeboat on station at the English coastal town of Sheringham in the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

This new apparatus had a number of improved features such as illumination, and an enhanced hydraulic lifting device which, during rough seas, can be raised to an appropriate height enabling the boat to launch from the slipway at hightide without the bow being angled into the water.

The state-of-the-art carbon fibre hull structure has a foam core laminate that minimises the internal structure and helps the hull maintain its overall stiffness, and has very good impact absorption and recovers its shape after high impact loads which occur when the lifeboat rides through the waves at high speeds.

Located in the bow, water-filled ballast tanks provide the lifeboat with more stability and can be filled and emptied manually while at sea.

The engine start and stop switching is also located there along with individual tachometers motor high temperature warning lights.

Below the seats, there is access to the petrol tank filler caps along with a locker for gear such as a foot pump and an aerosol fog horn.

In case of technical difficulties with the navigation equipment, the crew can revert to using a set of waterproof charts of the local area which are also stored in pockets in the console.

[3] To the stern of The Oddfellows there is a roll-bar or A-frame which houses and supports the self-righting bag at the top, navigation lights and radio aerial and uplink to the GPS.

Alison Adamson, secretary of the East Anglian group of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows named the lifeboat and poured champagne across her bows.

The lifeboat was already at sea on an exercise when the Yarmouth Coastguard engaged her into an investigation of a reported capsized inflatable dinghy[1] about one metre long, found on the east beach at Sheringham.

Eventually the Coastguard beach team established that no one was with the inflatable and that there was no immediate danger and so the lifeboat returned to station.