Fully aware of the short time the ship had left and of the lack of lifeboat space for all passengers and crew, he continued to urge reluctant people into the lifeboats in the hope of filling them as fully as possible.

He had not done so, apart from some letters to newspapers, and editors continued to present Greathead to the public as the inventor of the lifeboat.

On a voyage to Java he was shipwrecked, along with part of his crew, and continued in a lifeboat.

The lifeboat, acting as a lure, commenced to pull round the stern ; submarine followed closely and Lieutenant Hereford, with complete disregard of the danger incurred from the fire of either ship or submarine ( who had trained a maxim on the lifeboat ), continued to decoy her to within 50 yards of the ship.

In Britain, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution | RNLI operate a small fleet of RNLI hovercraft lifeboat | hovercraft lifeboats

The RNLI operate an all weather Trent class lifeboat, the Blue Peter VII, and a class D inshore lifeboat from within the harbour.

Basing lifeboat capacity on numbers of passengers and crew instead of ship tonnage, conducting lifeboat drills so passengers know where their lifeboats are and crew know how to operate them, instituting manned 24-hour wireless ( radio ) communications in all passenger ships, and requiring mandatory transmissions of ice warnings to ships were some of his recommendations made at the inquiries and acted on by the Board of Trade, its successor agencies and their equivalents in other maritime nations.

* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.

The statements said that five survivors from U-27 managed to board Nicosian, while the rest were shot and killed on Herbert's orders while clinging to the merchant vessel's lifeboat falls.

Oberleutnant zur See Iwan Crompton, after returning to Germany from a prisoner-of-war camp, reported that Baralong had run down the lifeboat he was in ; he leapt clear and was shortly after taken Baralong.

In 1910, in Vitagraph's Back to Nature we see a Long Shot of people looking down over the rail of a ship taken from below, followed by a shot of the lifeboat they are looking at taken from their position.

There is little notable building from the later parts of the 20th century, but major recent additions include the lifeboat station and two new structures for Trinity House ; that organisation's office building, next door to the Old Custom Houses, was completed in 2005.

Back on U-571, attempted repairs fail and the Captain is alerted that survivors from the merchant ship he sank have been spotted in a lifeboat, asking for asylum.

One such usage occurred in 1970, when the square carbon dioxide filters from Apollo 13's failed command module had to be modified to fit round receptacles in the lunar module, which was being used as a lifeboat after an explosion en route to the moon.

She and her father 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.

Meanwhile the lifeboat had set out from Seahouses but arrived at Big Harcar rock after Grace and her father had completed the rescue: all they found were the dead bodies of Mrs Dawson's children and of a vicar.

Nine other passengers and crew had managed to float off a lifeboat from the stern section before it too sank, and were picked up in the night by a passing Montrose sloop and brought into South Shields that same night.

The RNLI operates two lifeboats from Falmouth: Richard Cox Scott, a Severn Class all weather boat, and Eve Park, an Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat.

Housed in the former Cromer lifeboat shed, the latter is home to the former Southwold lifeboat " Alfred Corry ", which was in service from 1893 to 1918.

The lifeboat station is located on Riverside Road () from where are operated the Trent class lifeboat Samarbeta and the B class ( inshore ) lifeboat Seahorse IV.

The following day, 14 survivors from a starboard lifeboat also landed.

The Port Orford Heads State Park is located in Port Orford on a scenic headland where the historic Coast Guard lifeboat station operated from 1930 to 1970.

A second lifeboat was kept at the harbour from 1917 until 1928.

Participants build the wackiest crafts they can think up to sail around two buoys in three great races whilst being pelted with flour bombs, water bombs and hoses from the lifeboat.

The waterborne element of Search and Rescue is provided by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from 43 lifeboat stations including inland stations at Enniskillen and Lough Derg, the coastguard inshore rescue boats, and community rescue boats at eleven stations: Cahore, Tramore, Bunmahon, Bantry, Derrynane, Banna, Ballybunion, Kilkee, Schull, Limerick City, Corrib / Mask.

RTÉ and the programme makers, Coco TV, announced that all money earned from phone-in votes in the previous week ( and which, due to the disaster, would not now lead to some contestant leaving the ship on 16 June as planned ), would be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which supplies lifeboat coverage around the Irish coast.

Additionally, a third lifeboat, from Lytham reached the Mexico.

Power production, aluminium production ( Sør-Norge Aluminium ), sea-farming, shipbuilding ( Eidsvik Skipsbyggeri, Hellesøy Verft, Bergen Group Halsnøy ) and lifeboat production ( Umoe Schat-Harding, Norsafe, Eide Marine Tech, Noreq ) all have water as the main basis of production.

The original lifeboat station was established in 1881 but closed in 1925 due to silting of the channel ( a secondary channel of the Ribble that ran past the pier ).

* 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.

* January 30 – The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.

The lifeboat, on her maiden rescue, rowed for a mile and a half through the River Ribble, and then rowed to the Mexico, rescuing all twelve members of the barque's crew.

In 2002 the RNLI's Thames lifeboat service was introduced to the River Thames following the Marchioness disaster, and Tower Pier was initially used as a base for the lifeboat service.

He served as executive officer on the USS Monitor in the engagements on the James River, Virginia, April to May 1862, and when the ship foundered in a gale on November 30 – December 1, 1862, which Greene survived after being pulled into a lifeboat by the ship's surgeon, Dr. Grenville M. Weeks.

On one patrol in September 1940, Kretschmer had also recovered a survivor of another torpedo attack who was alone in the Atlantic on a small raft and took him aboard, transferring him to a lifeboat after his next successful attack.

Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule in the year 2169, the remake starred Ron Silver, who also directed, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder.

Given the coastal location, the town is also served by an RNLI lifeboat station and a HM Coastguard post.

There is also a large fishmart and the local lifeboat is stationed there too.

The TOWER OF REFUGE, an ornament to Douglas Bay, was erected chiefly through the humanity and zeal of Sir William Hillary ; and he also was the founder of the lifeboat establishment at that place ; by which, under his superintendence, and often by his exertions at the imminent hazard of his own life, many seamen and passengers have been saved.

In 1994 a new Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat, also named ’ Blue Peter V ’, replaced the Atlantic 21.

These boats were used to support the college's sailing activities and also to fulfil the college's responsibility as an inshore lifeboat station for the RNLI – a responsibility it still discharges to this day.

Three graduates of the Atlantic College who were also trained as RNLI inshore lifeboat coxswains worked at the school during its inaugural year and coached some Pacific College students to build a pair of boats, designated X-27, propelled by twin outboard engines and X-28, propelled by inboard-outboard stern drive.

Inflatables are also used in conjunction with larger rescue craft such as the Y class lifeboat used with the Tamar and Severn class lifeboats.

There is also a new Lifeboat Visitors ' Centre, where visitors can purchase souvenirs, and take a look at the RNLI lifeboat from the viewing gallery.

The town also has a fire station and an RNLI lifeboat station, which houses two boats: a Mersey class and a D class.

There is also the historic Penarth Yacht Club, built in 1883, stood next to the new RNLI lifeboat station and its associated shop, together with a wide range of popular cafes and restaurants available on the seafront.

The town is also home to a lifeboat station which is situated in Burry Port Harbour.

Due to the strange co-incidence of the recurrence of the names White, from Thomas and John the lifeboat builders, and the name of the brig Mary White and also the name of its captain, Mr. White, the lifeboat was thereafter named Mary White.

Between fifteen and twenty minutes after the Southport boat launched, the neighbouring St Anne's lifeboat — the Laura Janet — was also called out.

Archer also designed a sturdy sailing vessel class for the Redningsselskapet ( The Norwegian Lifeboat institution ), which was used for many years and now is referred to as a Colin Archer ; the prototype rescue lifeboat, " Colin Archer RS 1 ", is still afloat and in use as a floating museum.

William Wouldhave, a contemporary of Lukin's, also has a claim to have invented the lifeboat.

The mothership also acts as a lifeboat for the Taelon people.

Although initially adapted for the Warwick, the lifeboat was subsequently also carried by Air-Sea Rescue Lancasters and B-17 Flying Fortresses.

It may also refer to a type of vessel designed as a lifeboat or " monomoy " used for recreational and competitive rowing in the San Francisco Bay Area and coastal Massachusetts.

He also survives, although Young recognizes him and calls him out in front of the other people in the lifeboat.