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Peniel Mission

The Peniel Mission was an interdenominational holiness rescue mission that was started in Los Angeles, California on 11 November 1886 by Theodore Pollock Ferguson (1853–1920) and Manie Payne Ferguson (born 1850; died 8 June 1932).


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19384 Winton

It is named after Nicholas Winton - a Briton that organized a rescue mission to save 669 of mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from their horrific fate in Nazi concentration camps.

Bernard J. D. Irwin

Second Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom led a group of 60 men from the 7th Infantry after Cochise but was soon besieged, prompting a rescue mission by the army.

Ebby Thacher

After talking with Dr. William D. Silkworth, however, he went to Calvary Rescue Mission and underwent a religious conversion; he was then admitted to the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addiction in New York City on December 11, 1934.

Empire of Danger

Empire of Danger is a movie about a rescue mission sent to Mars to find a missing crew that Space Command lost contact with.

Gilberto José Marxuach

Together with his men, he received intense jungle training and was later put in charge of a rescue mission which searched for the remains of various American soldiers who perished aboard a C-45 Expeditor military aircraft which crashed in the Panamanian jungles.

James B. Vaught

Perhaps his most notable role was played during "Operation Eagle Claw", the infamous failed rescue mission of hostages in Iran, where General Vaught served as the overall Commander of the operation.

Mrs. Chippy

The painting Mrs Chippy, by Wolf Howard, shows the cat "about to be shot", while in the background the crew launch a small open boat on a rescue mission and Endurance is stuck in the ice.

MV Swanland

Two of the Russian crew, Roman Savin (26), and Vitaliy Karpenko (48), were rescued during the sinking with Prince William taking part in the rescue mission.

Storm Ahead

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.

Tony Bullimore

The Royal Australian Navy launched a rescue mission for Bullimore and another capsized competitor, Thierry Dubois.

Volstagg

A rescue mission causes a destructive battle which then gives the Great Sphinx of Giza its unique face.

Yitzhak Hofi

In July 1976, Hofi lobbied strongly for a rescue mission to be mounted to save the large number of Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France airliner flown to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.