How To Use Lifeboat In A Sentence
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Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon.
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Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks.
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Others stayed on the slippery canting decks until the City of Benares foundered, struggling to free rafts and jammed lifeboats.
THE LONELY SEA
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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The ship, with fifteen hundred passengers, and fitted with sufficient lifeboats after the tragedy of the Titanic two years before, sailed in late afternoon, heading east down the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Bird Cloud
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Iceberg dead ahead! SOS ! Man the lifeboats! We're going down! There, isn't that a comfort ?
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The vessel's net entangled and fouled the 52-foot motor lifeboat's twin 36-inch brass propellers.
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We understand that the Navy is not expected to intervene but will not allow that lifeboat to leave with that hostage to go back to what's called a mothership if you will.
CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
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TD: Well, it's my first new studio music in nearly twenty years, and I've written most of the music in England in the wheelhouse of my solar powered lifeboat looking out over the North Sea, which is a very inspiring place to be.
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The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways.
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The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old
THE SEA FARMER
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A lifeboatman yesterday branded the would-be seadog, who earlier this month ran the vessel aground, a 'nightmare'.
The Sun
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We found a lifeboat suspended 10 feet above the deck and bedded down under a tarpaulin.
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Fifteen minutes later there was a cliff climbing and casualty recovery by the Tramore Coast Guard Unit, while at 1.35 pm there was another simulated rescue, this time by Tramore Lifeboat of a sailboarder in trouble.
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A dog who plunged 40 feet down a cliff on to a beach between Tenby and Saundersfoot is making a good recovery after a rescue mission involving coastguards, lifeboatmen and a vet.
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But her baby daughter started to arrive and the crew of the Oban lifeboat found themselves helping the midwife and paramedic.
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His dog was rescued by a lifeboat during the incident on Tuesday afternoon.
The Sun
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There were neither lifeboats nor mortar-apparatus in those days, but there were the same willing hearts and stout arms then as now, and in a marvellously short space of time, hundreds of the able-bodied men of the town, gentle and semple, were assembled on these wild cliffs, with torches, rope, &c.; in short, with all the appliances for saving life that the philanthropy of the times had invented or discovered.
The Lighthouse
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Two lifeboats were also launched along with a coastguard rescue team based at the resort.
The Sun
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Men are needed to crew the lifeboat.
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Bridlington inshore lifeboat had saved 17 lives the previous summer.
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For the same sorts of reason that sinking ships need lifeboats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clacton's lifeboats have been launched 32 times in the past three months, compared to 21 for the same time last year.
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I've seed him save dozens, ay _dozens_, of lives -- men, women, and children, -- in lifeboats, an 'in luggers, an' swimmin '.
The Lifeboat
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A lifeboat hovercraft was launched from Morecambe at 12.50 pm following reports that a number of people had been caught by the tide.
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Major Bethell, OC of the guard, ordered his men to clear away the barbed wire in front of the lifeboats.
THE LONELY SEA
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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.
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Once secure, the lifeboat slowly towed the vessel away from shore and out of danger.
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The order was given to abandon ship and the lifeboats were launched.
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He was still alive when rescued by a lifeboat crew but died soon afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lifeboats and life-saving equipment were inadequate.
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Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain.
Farouche
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A flotilla of more than 50 boats, yachts and lifeboats surrounded the magnificent ship as it sailed majestically into its home port.
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The ship is lying on an even keel and swimming from the stern will take the diver under the lifeboat davits, past the galley and engine room doors and up the ladders to the chart room.
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The pair were then lowered down the rockface to the safety of a waiting inshore lifeboat.
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The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways.
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The inshore lifeboat manoeuvred close inshore to pick up three of the youngsters while the fourth, who had scrambled further up the cliff, was rescued by the Coastguard team by cliff line.
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When the lifeboats were lowered the ship was listing too heavily for many to be released.
The Sun
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The Lifeboat arrived on scene in moderate conditions in a South Easterly 4 to 5, to find the Yacht hard aground on a mudbank at the entrance to the Camplie River.
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Two lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter scoured the area for hours before ending their search.
The Sun
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Another yacht was dismasted off the The Needles and was towed into Poole by the Swanage lifeboat.
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The Aran Islands lifeboat had broken loose from its mooring in a gale at the beginning of November.
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He was rescued by a lifeboat and taken to Dover.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police launch boat was also there as well as the coastguards and lifeboat crew.
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The Navy vessel located the pleasure craft and stood by her until the local lifeboat arrived to take the stricken vessel in tow.
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In the past, lifeboats largely depended on inshore fishermen to serve as coxswains and crew.
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She had lifeboat accommodation for 970 persons.
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Lifeboats carry out many rescues every month.
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Writing about a case in which someone in a lifeboat must choose between saving a stranger and saving his or her spouse, Williams argued that an impartialist morality that would demand that the agent consider whether giving preference to the spouse is permissible gives that agent “one thought too many” (Williams 1981, 18).
Moral Reasoning
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Woman dies at sea A holidaymaker has died after being rescued from the sea off Cornwall by a lifeboat crew.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Stromness lifeboat stood by while a tow rope was attached by the Banff-registered fishing boat Enterprise.
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War veterans were left fuming in the seaside town after lifeboatmen told them that they would not be able to fire maroons at the beginning and end of the silence on advice from RNLI headquarters.
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The $4.9 billion budget Sims proposed last month put a number of programs into a metaphorical "lifeboat" -- meaning they would be funded indefinitely for six months, with their long-term survival contingent whether the Legislature will authorize their funding.
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Good boatmen sometimes failed because they just lacked that magic something that made good lifeboatmen.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The lifeboat is also occupied by a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena.
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Lifeboat technology has advanced by leaps and bounds.
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The one person who you must NOT toss out of the overcrowded lifeboat is the navigator, the fellow who knows where the boat is relative to the nearest seaports and shipping lanes.
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The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways.
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There are certainly ominous signs that the wealthy and privileged are dashing for the lifeboats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bridlington coastguard, the resort's inshore lifeboat and a helicopter from RAF Leconfield carried out a search yesterday morning.
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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Passengers clung desperately onto the lifeboats.
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Then it is like a lifeboat. within limitations, Id think you have to say, that the law of the jungle applies.
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However as long as the ship had lifeboats on board it was fit to travel.
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No lifeboat drill had been given and because of the way the ship listed, it was impossible to lower the lifeboats anyway.
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Her idea of a ‘fun job’ is putting on a crash helmet and maneuvering one of the station's two 47-foot self-righting motor lifeboats through 14-foot breaking waves.
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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.
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The lifeboat is already creaking at the seams and likely to have to mount many more rescues as company failures rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usually they're just put off the ship on a lifeboat and the ship and cargo are stolen.
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A rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was scrambled to aid lifeboat crews in the four-hour search.
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But she scrambled on to a ledge and was rescued by a lifeboat crew.
The Sun
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The articles show the bravery, skill and commitment that is needed by each of the lifeboat crews.
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She was the St Mary's fast-afloat self-righting Arun-class lifeboat and Hal Carter was not just a Sallonian and a boatman.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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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.
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An inflatable from the lifeboat helped put the vessel's anchor down, so that she could winch herself off the skerry.
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They spent three hours at the quayside and were assisted by lifeboatmen when they had to take to the sea to fight the blaze.
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Both Whitby's lifeboats had to be launched to rescue five canoeists who put out to sea in a force nine gale on Saturday.
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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.
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An inshore lifeboat will be temporarily stationed at the museum throughout the year-long construction period.
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The lifeboat brought off the crew and passengers of the stricken ship.
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Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel.
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In three small lifeboats they reached an uninhabited island 350 miles away.
The Sun
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They held a celebration to mark forty years of the lifeboat service.
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We were worried about the lifeboat which was not lashed down.
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The coxswain of the lifeboat said: ‘It started out as a basic tow job, but ended up as a full-scale rescue.’
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Her 14 crew took to the lifeboats; the ship spent a fortnight jammed on the rocks before sinking into a steep gully, stern in 3m and bow in just 6m.
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Four lifeboats and a helicopter took part in the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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Men jumped from the ship into lifeboats, overcrowding them to the point of capsizing.
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But he managed to right the dinghy and get ashore to rescue the canoeists and bring them back on board the lifeboat.
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A number of exercises were executed, including dropping the winchman on the afterdeck, transferring lifeboat crew to the helicopter, and a stretcher exercise.
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With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel.
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If it wasn't for the car we drive, the title attaching itself to our name on the business card, the amount of money we make, things we store in our idol garage, or the people we hang out with inside of our lifeboat, we men might not have an identity to speak of.
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The main thing now is that 90 per cent of all lifeboatmen are not seamen traditionally and we are having to train people from the very start.
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After several attempts and with large waves washing through the lifeboat, Crewman Rogers managed to bring three people over the bow.
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Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain.
Farouche
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possie" underneath two lifeboats and was sleeping soundly.
The Tale of a Trooper
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Timson, a lifeboatman to the end, used the last of his strength to sit upright and try to stand.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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An inshore lifeboat will be temporarily stationed at the museum throughout the year-long construction period.
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The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors.
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The lifeboat kept him up till the rescue crew came.
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He was encouraged to support the Royal National Lifeboat Institution by two of his neighbours, who are retired naval captains and has already raised about £800.
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We finally reached the edge of the deck, where other women and children were clambering aboard the small, slightly rickety looking lifeboat.
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The offer is for October 3-4 and includes a return trip by Stena Line ferry, Discovery, a two-star hotel or B & B, a visit to the historic coastal defence museum and the lifeboat museum.
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Rather like some inshore lifeboats, the scheme will be set up as a charitable trust, funded by commercial sponsorship, public donations and fund-raising events.
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His disappearance sparked a search involving a coastguard helicopter and eight lifeboats.
The Sun
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The first inshore lifeboat of its kind in Ireland has been launched at Newcastle Lifeboat station.
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The suddenness of the attack left no time to launch lifeboats, so the 900 sailors who escaped the sinking ship found themselves floating in life jackets.
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Six all-weather lifeboats, four helicopters, one fixed-wing aircraft and another 26 vessels joined the search in deteriorating conditions.
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An inshore lifeboat will be temporarily stationed at the museum throughout the year-long construction period.
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Her crew of 24 scrambled into lifeboats as the 50,000-tonne, 200-metre ship went down within 90 minutes.
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On April the 9th, the men launched the lifeboats and headed for dry land for the first time in many months.
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The inshore lifeboat, which is designed to respond rapidly and work in very shallow and confined waters, was first introduced by the RNLI in the 1970s.
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One of the surfmen who had manned the lifeboat seemed to be particularly interested in the rescued boy, for he came into the station several times to ask how he was feeling, and if there was not something more he wanted.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
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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.
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While America is being purposely distracted by Bush's puny, paltry and poor-spirited "War on Terror" and Noah is out shopping for Gucci knock-offs at Target instead of keeping an eye on the ark, our country is being left defenseless, unprotected and without lifeboats while the biggest Flood ever is rapidly heading our way.
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His rescue mission was also said to be the inspiration for setting up the first local lifeboat in the area.
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Ms. Barry said their group believed there was a need for an extra inshore lifeboat at Boatstrand because it had become a busy area and its pier was small making it difficult for a vehicle with a rescue boat to manoeuvre.
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A lifeboat came to the yachtsman's rescue.
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Is it any wonder that Union membership is shrinking and Union Leaders are now jumping ship onto the lifeboats called Parliaments, State, Federal and Local?
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Both the deep-sea and in-shore lifeboats were launched.
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But the kelson of the lifeboat had also dropped against the new fuel pipe, and the cap was swinging on its chain.
THE MAIN CAGES
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And, sure enough, there on the deck is a guy is a brilliant, somewhat unworldly professor, busily sketching a design for a new lifeboat as the smoke billows in larger and larger clouds.
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Others again DID reach the upper decks, found their way to the nearest fore or aft lifeboat blocked by rolls of athwartships barbed wire, and went below again to find some passage which would bring them up to a lifeboat no further away than twenty yards from where they stood.
The Lonely Sea
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Previous appeals have ranged from charity aid for overseas to buying fast inshore lifeboats around the UK coast that have saved numerous lives since they went into service.
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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.
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Stromness lifeboat was called out on Sunday evening after a fishing boat with engine trouble began drifting towards shore near the Bay of Skaill.
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A joiner by trade, Stuart has a lifelong passion for boating and has used his joinery skills to update parts of the former lifeboat.
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When the lifeboat reached the ship at 4.30pm it was listing at 45 degrees.
The Sun
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Both Whitby's lifeboats had to be launched to rescue five canoeists who put out to sea in a force nine gale on Saturday.
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He chaffed us about our oarsmanship in the lifeboats, saying the appearance of our oars wildly waving reminded him of the sails of a windmill.
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They held a celebration to mark forty years of the lifeboat service.
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In view of her status and the requirement on her to set an example, I shall double the donation I expect for the Diver Lifeboat Fund to a treble crunchie, based on a fine of a oncer for every time she used the F-word and each of various B-words.
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Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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The port's inshore and all-weather lifeboats were scrambled after one of the canoeists, who were in three boats, called for help on a mobile phone soon after leaving Whitby harbour.
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Two crewmen died, but the remaining 20 were eventually rescued by the lifeboat.
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Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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A delta-winged shuttle and a lifeboat are moored in cradles on either side of the central cylinder.
A King of Infinite Space
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One adult was winched ashore by helicopter and the other two were brought in by lifeboats.
The Sun
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Two lifeboat crews searched for more than an hour.
The Sun
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It took my last reserves of strength and will to swim to the lifeboat.
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Clodagh was one of the 3,000 people who bought a €10 ticket in order to support a mammoth fundraising drive for a new state-of-the-art inshore lifeboat.
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One adult was winched ashore by helicopter and the other two were brought in by lifeboats.
The Sun
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On Sunday the lifeboat rescued a yacht which had run aground off Heir Island.
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The new lifeboat will have a range of 250 nautical miles and will carry a crew of six.
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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The 47-foot motor lifeboats are the backbone of the Coast Guard's rescue fleet and are designed to be self-righting in about 12 seconds and withstand breaking waves up to 20 feet.
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Up to now no-one outside the lifeboat station has a clue what the long-running and acrimonious dispute is all about.
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He said that somebody should get the orchestra to shut up, and that everybody should be on deck, manning the lifeboats.
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Lifeboat coxswain Gary Edwards praised the crew for their heroic work.
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His disappearance sparked a search involving a coastguard helicopter and eight lifeboats.
The Sun
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I was in Kilkee on the Clare coast for the launch of their new inshore lifeboat for the marine rescue service there.
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When the lifeboat reached it, the RNLI crew pumped out the water and restarted the engine.
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Nelson liked to salvage a few lifeboats from defeated French ships for this very purpose.
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The lifeboat towed the stricken vessel into Stromness, arriving just before midnight.
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Furthermore, if the lifeboat owner, Jones, is being aggressed against by Smith, and has the right to prosecute Smith later on, he therefore also has the right to use force to repel Smith's aggression on the spot.
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But most of all he was a lifeboatman and tonight he was in his element.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Later in his career Freeman hit the national headlines by helping to drag the Whitby lifeboat six miles overland through deep snowdrifts in answer to a plea for help from the Robin Hoods Bay station.
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In 1884 four sailors were marooned in a lifeboat after their ship sank.
The Sun
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Six all-weather lifeboats, four helicopters, one fixed-wing aircraft and another 26 vessels joined the search in deteriorating conditions.
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She was able to convince her husband and a few others, including my great-grandmother, and they got to the first lifeboat while everyone else was trying to ride out the storm.
At Hidden Falls
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The Baltimore RNLI lifeboat takes part in the rescue of the 100ft US yacht Rambler 100 which capsized off the Irish coast in the Fastnet race with 21 onboard.
Fastnet race yacht capsizes off Ireland
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On deck was a complete section of superstructure, probably the accommodation block, and beside it a lifeboat davit encrusted in coral.
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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.
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Richard Phillips, who is being held on a lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama after he was taken Wednesday during the struggle for control of his ship, appeared to have tried to jump off the boat and outswim the pirates on Friday.
American Captain Tries to Escape From Sea Pirates
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They held a celebration to mark forty years of the lifeboat service.
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The only way to rescue her was by sea and a lifeboat crew was dispatched from Poole.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luckily, Kurt lowered the lifeboat and escaped the sinking vessel.
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When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police.
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Clad in sou'wester and thigh boots, his rugged, bearded features are every inch the Victorian lifeboatman.
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An area from one hundred yards out in front of the lifeboat to the high side of the Caledonia was bathed in light.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
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Only one of the ship 's three lifeboats reached land.
Times, Sunday Times
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TACLOBAN CITY-A passing vessel rescued 15 Filipinos and four South Koreans on lifeboats after they abandoned a Panamanian-registered ZAMBOANGA CITY: Even as the country reels from the sinking of SuperFerry 9 off the Zamboanga peninsula, another vessel sank on Monday near Hilaban Island in Samar.
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A lifeboat came to rescue the people on the sinking ship.
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The lifeboat went out to a ship in distress.
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The lifeboat crew are on standby all the year round.
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The lifeboat crew helped to anchor the vessel so it would withstand the battering of the waves until it was ready to be refloated, and transferred the passengers and crew to safety.
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When St David's lifeboat arrived the ferry lit up the fishing vessel with powerful lights and shielded it from the fierce northerly winds while the three crew members were rescued.
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Major Bethell, OC of the guard, ordered his men to clear away the barbed wire in front of the lifeboats.
THE LONELY SEA
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The bag was filled mostly with materials produced on the way down by the lifeboat's bioconverter.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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The organisation made the decision when threatened by a group who were attempting to provide an additional inshore lifeboat in nearby Dunabrattin.
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And while the Bridlington lifeboatmen were at church, the Filey lifeboat had launched in case there was a call-out.
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The engine -- a four-stroke from Bergius of Glasgow -- must be fully serviced and a lifeboat be installed.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Often these well-meaning folk were what I would describe as Malthusian Social Darwinists for whom Garrett Hardin's 'lifeboat ethic' was gospel the very same folks who are regressive and simple minded in the Sierra Club when it comes to immigration and population issues; Paul Ehrlich's work looms large here too.
Governing the Eco-Commons
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A hapless motorboater has had to be rescued by a lifeboat after repeatedly circling the Isle of Sheppey thinking he was sailing around the UK coast.
YBW News
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He remembers as a child being at Flamborough when a lifeboat was overturned and three lifeboatmen were killed.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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Two hovercraft, two rescue helicopters and three lifeboats rushed to the scene fearing a repeat of the tragedy which earlier last year claimed the lives of 21 people.
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In three small lifeboats they reached an uninhabited island 350 miles away.
The Sun
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The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell.
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The warp raced out through the fairlead and the lifeboat dropped back.
THE MAIN CAGES
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William, inevitably dubbed crewman K-9, is being trained to help the lifeboat by searching for casualties along the shoreline, and then barking to bring the crew to the location.
YBW News
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He flowed down to the floor of the lifeboat and disappeared under the tarpaulin.
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So what's the point of a lifeboat that mashes its occupants the moment it hits the oggin?
The Sun
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The lifeboat launched in storm force 10-12 winds to help a stricken yacht, the Dasher, which was adrift with three people on board.
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Lifeboat teams and a coastguard helicopter were yesterday continuing to search the waters of the bay for him.
