Royal National Lifeboat Institution | Sheringham Lifeboat Station | Cromer Lifeboat Station | Tower Lifeboat Station | Lifeboat Luke | Mumbles Lifeboat Station | Lifeboat Distribution | Falmouth Lifeboat Station | 44-foot motor lifeboat |
The Abana was first seen off North Pier but by the time the lifeboat, which had to be towed by horse from Blackpool to Bispham, had been launched it had drifted to Little Bispham where it was wrecked.
The 2001 short film The Other Side, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson, was based on his novelette, "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea."
The crew had managed to escape in their own lifeboat and came ashore at Aberbach, where they were welcomed by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society and provided transport back to their home port in Halifax.
The current lifeboat station on the end of Cromer pier was re-built between 1997–1999 to replace the smaller 1923 one which was re-located to Southwold in Suffolk where it is used as a lifeboat museum.
During the summer the lifeboat was kept in a boat house at Sand Quay, but during the winter it was kept afloat in Warfleet Creek where it was quicker to respond to any ships in distress.
Campbell recalls the February night in a lifeboat in the Arctic filled with terrified refugees, his efforts to send SOS signals in gale-force winds, and of their miraculous rescue.
Edith's last memory of her father was that he was dressed in an Edwardian dinner jacket while smoking a cigar and sipping brandy on Titanic's deck as Edith and her mother were being lowered in the lifeboat.
Great Wakering village hall and the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch were prepared as reception centres, and a flotilla of small boats, the lifeboat, a barge and an army DUKW amphibious truck reached the stranded people and evacuated them to the reception centres.
In August 1928 the boat was declared unfit for service and so a Watson Class motor lifeboat that was intended for Thurso Lifeboat Station, the H.C.J., was stationed at Fowey for a few months until Fowey's own boat, the C.D.E.C., arrived in December.
galleryHOMELAND has shown imported and local Portland artists, as well as produced Lifeboat-Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach, Lifeboat-Hamptons for Scope Art Fair Hamptons, Waterways, an Istanbul Biennale project, and co produced The EAST/WEST Project Berlin.
Other partners include numerous system integrators and distributors, such as Carahsoft, Intelligent Decisions, Lifeboat, and McLane Advanced Technologies of Temple, TX.
She and her father William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.
Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 - 16 February 1834 - considered by some to have been the inventor of the unsinkable lifeboat, designs for which he tested on the Doctor's Pond.
In a letter to the RNLI, the Commander of HMS Icarus stated: "The manner in which the Margate lifeboat crew brought off load after load of soldiers under continuous shelling, bombing and aerial machine-gun fire, will be an inspiration to us all as long as we live."
The lifeboat, its transporting carriage and all the stores for the new lifeboat station were transported to Hunstanton on the train with the expense being absorbed by the Great Eastern Railway Company, this being a standard practice by this company during this time period.
Owing to the hazardous conditions at sea, the high density of shipping and a number of shipwrecks in recent years, the French authorities have introduced special search and rescue operations which include vessels such as the Abeille Bourbon as well as a number of large lifeboats in the ports of Douarnenez, Camaret, Le Conquet, Molène and Ushant.
The next day Lifeboat #2 reached the shore west of Nuevo Progreso upside down, with 12 survivors on top, and one survivor and four bodies inside.
They include very large paintings of wild ponies on Exmoor, galloping polo ponies, the last horse-launched lifeboat being pulled into a boiling sea, heavy working horses pulling felled timber and hard-working farm horses trudging home at the end of the day.
The ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Agulhas and, although the passengers and crew were rescued, Lucy lost most of her possessions and wedding gifts, managing to retrieve only a pair of vases for her sister (which she carried on her lap in the lifeboat) and a set of Sir Walter Scott's novels that had washed ashore in good condition as they were wrapped in waterproof packaging.
The first lifeboat station in Margate was served by a lifeboat called Hannah and Angela which had been given to the town in 1857 by Miss Burdett Coutts.
In February 2013, a lifeboat from Oliva washed up on a beach in the Coorong National Park in south-east South Australia.
Warehouses, industrial buildings, and disused buildings around the adjacent docks were searched while HM Coastguard, a police helicopter, and a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat searched the sea and shore.
Fuller had been seconded from the Blue Funnel Line following wartime experience during the Battle of the Atlantic of surviving two successive torpedo attacks and commanding an open lifeboat in the Atlantic ocean for thirty-five days without losing a single member of the crew.
The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum were awarded to the other members of the lifeboat crew.
•
Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum were awarded to the crew and slipway helpers who were at times up to their necks in the sea getting the lifeboat back on her slipway.
•
1976 - Special framed certificates were presented to the Coxswain and crew after the lifeboat was severely damaged by a heavy sea causing injuries to the coxswain and some of the crew on 7 December.
Instead of building a new lifeboat, the RNLI proposed to move and reallocate the existing lifeboat at Sea Palling in Norfolk, England.
In the 2012 television series Titanic, Lady Duff Gordon (Sylvestra Le Touzel) was shown urging her secretary Laura Francatelli to get in the boat by saying, "Don't be a fool Francatelli, this boat Lifeboat isn't sinking, that one Titanic is." She was later shown telling the officer to allow some men to board, including her husband, then forcing the officer, alongside Cosmo, to lower the boat.
•
In a deleted scene in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (Martin Jarvis) and Lucille Duff Gordon (Rosalind Ayres) are shown to be sitting in Lifeboat No. 1 with their secretary and a few crew members, when Fireman Hendrickson urges them to help people in the water.
The Sinking of the Titanic quotes Charles Lightoller as saying that after the sinking Daniel was rescued from the water by "a passing lifeboat".
Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue Group - One of the 3 last independent charitable lifeboat stations left in Western Australia after the others came under the government FESA umbrella (some coerced, some voluntarily), the group and the other two still face government pressure to be nationalised)
A witness recalled she had resisted persuasion from fellow passenger-victim, Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, to board a lifeboat in order to remain with her ill husband.
In the early days of the Teesmouth lifeboat, its crew were sometimes able, subject to wind conditions, to travel out to the lifeboat station at South Gare on a sail bogey.
Sheringham Lifeboat Station is an RNLI operated lifeboat station located in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk.
A later film with Tyrone Power called Seven Waves Away or Abandon Ship! (1957) dealt with the issue of the limits of lifeboat space and decisions of the first mate.
Rockets were sent up, and help arrived by boat within a few hours, but due to the rough seas the Queenscliff lifeboat was unable to get through the heads.
Six of the lifeboats were rescued by other ships; the seventh lifeboat, in the charge of the Second Officer, Joseph William Coppin (born 1881, St Neot, Cornwall), with 22 men aboard was never heard from again.
At 9 a.m. Irex was seen by soldiers stationed at The Needles Battery who alerted the Totland lifeboat.
The Boatswain, Edward F. Racine, was later awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for righting the overturned motor lifeboat, rescuing several other men from the water, and then helping to keep morale up whilst awaiting rescue.
There were 47 fatalities in the incident, 39 from the ship and 8 volunteer crew of the Mumbles RNLI rescue team from the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales who died attempting to save the crew of the Samtampa.
The church is most famous for the model of a lifeboat by William Wouldhave dating from 1802 which is suspended from the ceiling.
Its tragic aftermath, when the lifeboat capsizes on a rescue mission and six of the crew are lost, is based on the Mary Stanford Lifeboat disaster of 1928 which Monica Edwards personally witnessed when she lived at Rye Harbour.
Lifeboat Luke is a television program aimed at 4 to 7 year old children inspired by the Donaghadee RNLI lifeboat.
The lifeboat, captained by Dorus Rijkers, approached Renown, where Rijkers jumped out of the boat and climbed the mast.
In July 1963, the lifeboat station was established next to the West Mersea Yacht Club, one of the first ten inshore lifeboat stations in the British Isles.
He also invented a self-righting lifeboat, which was exhibited with a rocket gun and, several of his famous percussion muzzle loading shotguns and rifles at the Great Exhibition of 1851, where he was awarded a gold medal.
William Wouldhave (1751–1821) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for recognition as inventor of the lifeboat.