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Sentence Examples A rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was scrambled to aid lifeboat crews in the four-hour search. Many of the company had been bruised and battered as they tumbled along the listing deck and slid down manropes into the lifeboat. He flowed down to the floor of the lifeboat and disappeared under the tarpaulin. No lifeboat drill had been given and because of the way the ship listed, it was impossible to lower the lifeboats anyway. But her baby daughter started to arrive and the crew of the Oban lifeboat found themselves helping the midwife and paramedic. The lifeboat was an open rowing boat manned by local volunteers clad in oilskins. Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel. The Aran Islands lifeboat had broken loose from its mooring in a gale at the beginning of November. The Stromness lifeboat stood by while a tow rope was attached by the Banff-registered fishing boat Enterprise. On the way to the shore a sea struck the lifeboat broadside and pitched it on its beam ends. The conditions were terrible and you couldn't have launched a lifeboat that day, not to mind a currach. Stromness lifeboat was called out at the weekend after a Scrasbter fishing boat fouled her propeller in severe weather conditions. Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Bridlington coastguard, the resort's inshore lifeboat and a helicopter from RAF Leconfield carried out a search yesterday morning. The event, which was organised by the local community, is part of their ongoing campaign to raise funds for an inshore lifeboat for the area. The establishment of a community inshore lifeboat would be a reassuring safety feature for the thousands of visitors. I was in Kilkee on the Clare coast for the launch of their new inshore lifeboat for the marine rescue service there. The first inshore lifeboat of its kind in Ireland has been launched at Newcastle Lifeboat station. The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways. The police launch boat was also there as well as the coastguards and lifeboat crew. Show More Sentences We finally reached the edge of the deck, where other women and children were clambering aboard the small, slightly rickety looking lifeboat. A lifeboat hovercraft was launched from Morecambe at 12.50 pm following reports that a number of people had been caught by the tide. A Hercules aircraft honed in on the boat's locator beacon and an oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat to rescue the man. The lifeboat remained on the scene for several hours until the vessel was refloated on the next high water. When the lifeboat reached it, the RNLI crew pumped out the water and restarted the engine. Usually they're just put off the ship on a lifeboat and the ship and cargo are stolen. Former Newcastle RNLI members have claimed that inexperience was to blame for the dramatic capsize of the town's inshore lifeboat. But he managed to right the dinghy and get ashore to rescue the canoeists and bring them back on board the lifeboat. A lifeboat attended, but because of the falling tide, decided to stand by until the boat floated clear. An inflatable from the lifeboat helped put the vessel's anchor down, so that she could winch herself off the skerry. Angry survivors told how the captain fled his ship by lifeboat and abandoned passengers to their fate. After several attempts and with large waves washing through the lifeboat, Crewman Rogers managed to bring three people over the bow. Stromness lifeboat was called out on Sunday evening after a fishing boat with engine trouble began drifting towards shore near the Bay of Skaill. Up to now no-one outside the lifeboat station has a clue what the long-running and acrimonious dispute is all about. A joiner by trade, Stuart has a lifelong passion for boating and has used his joinery skills to update parts of the former lifeboat. The new lifeboat will have a range of 250 nautical miles and will carry a crew of six. The pair were then lowered down the rockface to the safety of a waiting inshore lifeboat. At about 2.30 am, his body was pulled from the water by the lifeboat crew down by the docks, near the jetty. Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon. Another yacht was dismasted off the The Needles and was towed into Poole by the Swanage lifeboat. Show More Sentences Kirkwall lifeboat and the ferry Eynhallow went to the aid of a boat that grounded on Wyre skerry on Saturday. After several days adrift in a lifeboat, some of the crew find the ship miraculously still afloat. A lifeboat was due to stay close to the vessel overnight in case conditions worsened. The Navy vessel located the pleasure craft and stood by her until the local lifeboat arrived to take the stricken vessel in tow. An inshore lifeboat will be temporarily stationed at the museum throughout the year-long construction period. All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there. The rescued fishermen were transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Valentia Island but luckily none of the men were injured. The front and back ends of the lifeboat had been blown away, and another man was clinging to the side of it. Imagine a number of passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat which has begun to ship water. Being a member of a lifeboat crew is not like delivering coal or having a milk round. The volunteer-crewed lifeboat was launched just after 9pm and reached the becalmed vessel, Stride, at 11.10 pm. Police, fire and lifeboat crews used inflatable dinghies to evacuate some of the residents from their homes. Two crewmen died, but the remaining 20 were eventually rescued by the lifeboat. The lifeboat launched in storm force 10-12 winds to help a stricken yacht, the Dasher, which was adrift with three people on board. Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks. His rescue mission was also said to be the inspiration for setting up the first local lifeboat in the area. An inshore lifeboat capsized during a rescue attempt and three crew members later required hospital treatment. Once secure, the lifeboat slowly towed the vessel away from shore and out of danger. The coast guard was alerted and the inshore lifeboat was sent out from Skegness. The lifeboat towed the stricken vessel into Stromness, arriving just before midnight. Show More Sentences Humber Coastguard scrambled a rescue helicopter to the scene and requested the launch of the Humber lifeboat. The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel. On Sunday the lifeboat rescued a yacht which had run aground off Heir Island. On deck was a complete section of superstructure, probably the accommodation block, and beside it a lifeboat davit encrusted in coral. The man made it to the deck, but because of the steep pitch of the now sinking ship, the lifeboat swung in its davits and struck him in the head. We found a lifeboat suspended 10 feet above the deck and bedded down under a tarpaulin. He remembers as a child being at Flamborough when a lifeboat was overturned and three lifeboatmen were killed. And while the Bridlington lifeboatmen were at church, the Filey lifeboat had launched in case there was a call-out. He moved to the safety of his life raft, from which he was rescued by an all-weather lifeboat which took him back to Whitby. They were plucked from the river, clinging to one another and a life ring, by members of the Humber Rescue lifeboat. The Stromness lifeboat stood by while a tow rope was attached by the Banff-registered fishing boat Enterprise. The boats arrived at Scrabster harbour early on Tuesday. The countess deftly steered the lifeboat, a resolute and unlikely vision in her ermine and pearls. A number of exercises were executed, including dropping the winchman on the afterdeck, transferring lifeboat crew to the helicopter, and a stretcher exercise. At 7.30 pm, Crewman Walters requested a rescue helicopter to help the fourth person and the lifeboat provided cover while this person was winched to safety. Arguably the highlight of the weekend, particularly for the viewing public, is the air-sea rescue exercise courtesy of the lifeboat and the search and rescue helicopter. But as the days wear on it becomes clear that, in this lifeboat in the middle of nowhere, the only things that survives are the brutal laws of nature. A new all-weather lifeboat launching berth has been officially opened. She survived by hanging onto a rope on a capsized lifeboat for 19 hours. Luckily, Kurt lowered the lifeboat and escaped the sinking vessel. The rescue lasted for about two hours and the crew worked for much of the time waist deep in water as the waves broke over the stem of the lifeboat. Show More Sentences In the past, unpaid volunteers have made professional-level contributions to many charitable activities, such as the lifeboat service, the Samaritans, and care of the elderly. The new hovercraft, designed to be used on mud and sandbanks as well as shallow water, was unveiled at the RNLI lifeboat station in Morecambe, Lancashire. He had waded too far into the murky ocean that was her personal life, and was desperately searching for a lifeboat or rescue helicopter to bail him out. This story, to give just the bare bones of it, is told by the sole survivor of a Pacific Ocean shipwreck, who drifts for 7 months in a lifeboat along with a Bengal tiger. After an incredibly suspenseful standoff, the marksmen take out the pirates in the lifeboat, saving Phillips. The Cleethorpes boat put two men on board, despite four-metre high waves, the tow was connected and slowly the bigger lifeboat started to drag the trawler out of the surf. If they throw us a crumb, it's like pirates who have sunk your ship, murdered your family, and burned your village giving you a lifeboat to sail away on. Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down. The lifeboat fund can well do without such soppy sentiments. A Hercules aircraft homed in on the boat's locator beacon and a merchant oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat and was rowing the man to safety, said Jessup. The lifeboat is also occupied by a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena. Surely, he says, each outboard should have had an independent fuel tank, and then at least one engine could have seen them safely home without the lifeboat being called out. There will be military parades, exhibitions, displays of more than 100 wartime vehicles and a D-Day battle scenario on Morecambe beach close to the lifeboat station. If a distress flare is inadvertently set off, please let the emergency services know by informing the coastguard and so avoiding an unnecessary lifeboat launch. Police officers, Clacton and Walton coastguards and the Clacton lifeboat all joined in the hunt along the town's seafront but were unable to find her. However, it was the Titanic disaster that sounded the death knell for his collapsible armada with the introduction, paradoxically, of strict new lifeboat regulations. He said inflatables, dinghies and other tourist craft had been the main reason for calls, although the lifeboat had also helped with a few boats who suffered engine trouble. Bridlington inshore lifeboat had saved 17 lives the previous summer. The organisation made the decision when threatened by a group who were attempting to provide an additional inshore lifeboat in nearby Dunabrattin. The Stromness lifeboat attended the fishing vessel Arkhangel at 4pm on Saturday after the vessel fouled her propeller 20 miles off Noup Head in Westray. Show More Sentences The 50-year-old Ukrainian was injured when a lifeboat he was in became insecure on its davits and dropped about 2ft while his ship was moored at Parkeston Quay. With empty lifeboat davits, rows of portholes, and a great deal of superstructure to photograph, our short decompression dive didn't really do this wreck justice. The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers. In the past month alone, the Dunmore East lifeboat crew had travelled 48 miles south east of the harbour to the rescue of a dismasted French yacht and brought it ashore. The new Atlantic 85 lifeboat for Skerries RNLI was officially named Louis Simson thanks his to his wife's touching legacy. A REDCAR lifeboat crew member is swapping his sea legs for running shoes to tackle The Great North Run. Steve Jones, a volunteer at Porthcawl RNLI lifeboat station for 27 years, took it last year with a telephoto lens. That includes the slipway from where the lifeboat is launched with a huge splash on its way to a rescue. Since the debate, every floating voter, every disaffected Labourite, is swimming madly in the direction of the Lib-Dem lifeboat. With the ship sinking, Rose flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and frees Jack. The lifeboat, operated by the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust, is completely independent from the RNLI and receives no money from them. A VOLUNTEER lifeboat crew went to the aid of three men whose speedboat became stranded in the Menai Strait on Saturday evening. In another incident an inflatable seen drifting out to sea from the beach at Barmouth sparked a call-out for the local lifeboat. It includes tasks like fixing faulty gas detectors, replacing a failed battery in a lifeboat and repairing a valve in a fire main. We tasked Porthdinllaen RNLI inshore lifeboat but speedboats in the area went to the catamaran's aid. Emergency procedures instructed personnel to make their way to lifeboat stations, but the fire prevented them from doing so. The Holyhead Maritime Museum is housed in what is claimed to be Wales's oldest lifeboat house. Once on scene the lifeboat placed a crew member aboard the small boat and assisted the occupant to connect a tow rope from the lifeboat. When Kanin chided him about his lack of chivalry, Tracy snapped, 'This is a movie, chowderhead, not a lifeboat. They spotted what they believed to be a life raft drifting nine miles north west of the lifeboat station. Show More Sentences Schettino, who had already taken to a lifeboat, can be heard talking to a coast guard official based in the western Italian port of Livorno. Since the debate every floating voter, every disaffected Labourite, is swimming madly towards the Lib-Dem lifeboat. In 1925, the RNLI abandoned the station at Southport and left the town with no lifeboat. The lifeboat found the other windsurfer a quarter of a mile north of Duncannon. And as lifeboat crews rushed to rescue the stranded pair, Diarmuid fought to keep them afloat with the help of a single life buoy. We wrapped her up in a survival bag and calmed her down, then took her to the lifeboat station where we were met by her very relieved owner. The pair, from Liverpool, got into trouble when their boat, understood to be a re-furbished lifeboat, ran aground on the rocks off Crail in Fife. Three officers were taken off later in the day by the RNLI lifeboat from Clovelly. On the night of 9 December 1886, the worst lifeboat disaster in the history of the UK occurred off the shores of Southport. We need abuilding big enough to house our new lifeboat and all the equipment needed to run the service efficiently. After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat. In 1963 John, who lives at South-field Avenue in the village, became a crewman on the first inshore lifeboat to be stationed at Seahouses. Largs lifeboat took one of the men to the hyperbaric chamber on the Isle of Cumbrae, which treats divers with the bends. Radar man Graham radioes a lifeboat in the area and the divers are plucked to safety. After a gap of fifty years, on 3 November 1990, the RNLI reopened Teignmouth Lifeboat Station with an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat. As a result of the high volume of shipwrecks that occurred RNLI lifeboat stations were established, one at each of these locations. This time there was a different outcome, with the Moelfre lifeboat under its coxswain, Richard Evans, succeeding in saving the crew. The message was received by the radio operator of the South Foreland lighthouse, who summoned the aid of the Ramsgate lifeboat. The current lifeboat, an Atlantic 75, is housed in the boathouse by the jetty and is launched using a lifeboat tractor. The first lifeboat in Cornwall was bought by the people of Penzance in 1803 but it was sold in 1812 due to lack of funds to keep it in operation. Show More Sentences But a Mersey class lifeboat more suitable for the shallow conditions in the Swashway channel is replacing the Brummie-bought boat. Coupled with the above, the Solent is renowned for its large volume of vessel usage, thus resulting in one of the highest density of declared lifeboat stations in the world. They were joined by Tynemouth lifeboat arrived 10 minutes later and helped transfer fuel, equipment and lifeboatmen to the trawler to pump out the water. Blyth lifeboat crew were able to establish contact with the second kayaker by VHF radio and quickly locate them both just off-shore of the wind turbines in Cambois Bay. He later boards a collapsible lifeboat by carrying a lost child. Until recently lifeboat crews were called to duty using a firework rocket which was launched from the shore base and which exploded with a loud bang. Pallid, shaking, panting for every breath he drew, he was slipping out of the unnoticing crowd when Cap'n Jim Trainor of the lifeboat crew called to him. The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society sent a lifeboat to Teignmouth in 1851 and kept it in a boathouse on the beach near the Custom House. In 1947, the entire lifeboat crew was lost at sea, attempting to rescue the crew of the SS Samtampa, in what has become known as the Mumbles lifeboat disaster. When the steamship Forfarshire hit rocks near the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland, the seas were too treacherous for the distant mainland lifeboat. In all this time only one effective rescue was made by the lifeboat. The Inshore lifeboat station was rebuilt in 2014, and the interior of the offshore boathouse is accessible to visitors during set days when the station isn't on alert. Several local books include detailed accounts of the lifeboat and coastguard rescues of the sailors of the many ships that have been wrecked on the area's dangerous coast. Irish Merchant Navy member Kevin McClory spent 14 days in a lifeboat and later went on to write the James Bond movies Never Say Never Again and Thunderball. In 1852, the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society deployed a lifeboat to the town, taken over in 1854 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. But Didn't, author Tim Maltin claims William Murdoch, from Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, fired his revolver at a crowd as he tried to lower the last lifeboat. The Dover lifeboat is a Severn class lifeboat based in the Western Docks. He became a hero the night the Titanic sank in 1912 when he rowed a lifeboat back to the schene of the sinking to save people from the freezing water. A SPEEDBOAT ATA witha man and a teenage boy on board was brought to safety by an inshore lifeboat after it suffered engine failure off the Little Orme headland in Llandudno. As the crew arrived at the lifeboat station, one of them saw a speed boat swamped by a wave near the groynes, close to the Granville Terrace slipway. Show More Sentences The story follows a boy who survives a shipwreck and gets stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days with a spotted hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger. Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by HM Coastguard, Seahouses RNLI lifeboat, or RAF helicopter. I had warmed under the smiling gaze of this military young woman who wore her small lifeboat hat and smoked her ration of tobacco, though she always refused coffee. Examples from Classical Literature He could not cut that tractor beam and the utmost power of his drivers could not wrest the lifeboat from its tenacious clutch. The starboard wing, parting from the lifeboat, had gashed a tree trunk, littering the ground with branches. In addition, I have my hands, tools, and materials to work with here in the lifeboat. On the lifeboat for those first seconds a silence of petrification reigned. After reading the manual on lifeboat operation there was but one course open. We hauled the lifeboat up so that the sea would not wash over it, but left our belongings in it, and then hurried below. It might have been these, elastically yielding, that had saved the lifeboat from total ruin. The South Shields lifeboat made towards her, succeeded in getting alongside, and rescued the crew. In contrast to these we give an instance of the action of the self-righting lifeboat when overturned. When the lifeboat arrived, the fog bank was dispersing and the tow continued without assistance. And on Captain's Sea Adventure children can ride on lifeboat carriages with cannons to quirt out water. The lifeboat station, in the tiny cove of St Justinian, has views across to Ramsey Island, home to seals, fulmars and peregrine falcons. Then he began to run up the stairwell toward the good lifeboat. The two men returned to the lifeboat preparatory to leaving. The lifeboat crew warned them of the dangers but then four days later Carl and a friend set out for the second time on the same dinghies. The crew immediately notified the harbour master and a pilot boat and the Tynemouth lifeboat were sent to the scene. The first lifeboat placed in Ramsgate was called the Northumberland. The Moelfre RNLI lifeboat crew located the fishing vessel 45 minutes after launching into the 20 knot strong north easterly wind and rough sea. The last note of modernity was supplied by the telephone wire attached to the roof of the lifeboat shelter. She was dangerous to approach, but the lifeboat reached her. Show More Sentences Now he was brought up, and all were taken aboard the lifeboat. It resumed at 8am yesterday, with the Mumbles and Port Talbot Coastguard Rescue Teams, police search teams and the Mumbles RNLI all-weather lifeboat all involved. The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old Tryapsic. Tarzan dove into the water, and swam around the wreck to the lifeboat. The lifeboat crew were stood down after Valentia Coast Guard received information that all the canoes had safely reached the Clare shore at Two Mile Gate. Mumbles Coastguard Rescue Team and the Coastguard helicopter from St Athan were sent to the scene and the Mumbles RNLI all-weather lifeboat was launched. Find more words! 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