His long-anticipated rescue occurred on 1 February 1709 by way of the Duke, a privateering ship piloted by William Dampier.

* 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.

However, Kusche's research showed that the unclassified version of the Air Force investigation report stated that the debris field defining the second " crash site " was examined by a search and rescue ship, and found to be a mass of seaweed and driftwood tangled in an old buoy.

However, a mulatto who escaped the destruction of Syn's previous ship stowed away in Clegg's ship and accused him before the crew ; Clegg quelled the potential mutiny by having the mulatto's tongue cut out, marooning him on a coral reef and violently killing Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who represented the crew in their wish to rescue the mulatto.

Shortly thereafter the Nanina encountered the British ship Nancy under Lt D ' Aranda who had sailed from the River Plate in order to rescue the survivors of the Isabella.

Ibn Battuta's ship almost sank on embarking from Sri Lanka, only for the vessel that came to his rescue to suffer an attack by pirates.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.

Radiotelegraphy proved effective for rescue work in sea disasters by enabling effective communication between ships and from ship to shore.

Gerbino, in breach of the plighted faith of his grandfather, King William, attacks a ship of the King of Tunis to rescue thence his daughter.

Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.

* July 17, 1816 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.

* July 17 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.

* April 28 – The ship Vergulde Draeck is wrecked off Ledge Point, Western Australia after it departs the Cape of Good Hope ; rescue missions fail to find survivors.

Driscoll and the rest of the crew rescue him from the ship, but Driscoll is accidentally left behind in the confusion.

In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, R2-D2 helps Anakin and Obi-Wan in their mission to rescue Chancellor Palpatine from Count Dooku's capital ship, the Invisible Hand.

Graham's concept was that a group of young rebels would rescue Avon, who had been kept cryogenically frozen by Servalan, and then roam the galaxy in a new ship named Liberator.

In " The Next Phase ", Ro and La Forge are presumed dead after a transporter malfunction while returning from rescue operations on a disabled Romulan ship.

Bane reported his success to Gunray, and the Viceroy offered to send him a rescue ship in exchange for the data from the Holocron — but Bane remained far too cagey to accept Gunray's offer, and made his own escape as the last ship in Gunray's borrowed fleet was destroyed.

Actually the short features Pete holding Alice hostage in a pirate ship while Julius comes to the rescue.

Lone Starr and Barf, in their Winnebago space ship ( Eagle 5 ), reach Vespa before Spaceball One, rescue her and Dot, and escape into hyperspace.

Lone Starr, with Yogurt's help in repairing his ship and training in the Schwartz, races to the planet Spaceball to rescue Vespa, and then returns to Druidia, using the Schwartz to reverse the robot's sucking action and returning the air to the planet.

* HMS Belos ( A214 ), a submarine rescue ship in the Swedish Navy

Although not mentioned in Homer's Epic, Achaemenides is significant ; his stranding and subsequent rescue by Aeneas ' fleet make him the only known member of Odysseus ' crew to survive the return journey to Ithaca ( as every ship besides the flagship was destroyed by the Laestrygonian giants, and those besides Odysseus on the last ship were drowned after his men devoured Helios ' sacred cattle ).

The Thebans sent a large army into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas, but they could not keep the field against the superior cavalry of Alexander, who, aided by auxiliaries from Athens, pursued them with great slaughter.

Odysseus set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by his great grandfather, Hermes, who had been sent by Athena.

Indeed, 12 years later, when he had thrice rescued Gaul from Umayyad invasions, Antonio Santosuosso noted when he destroyed an Umayyad army sent to reinforce the invasion forces of the 735 campaigns, " Charles Martel again came to the rescue.

Like the " Giant Size " X-Men team, McTaggert's former students were sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa, the living island.

The British gun brig Nancy was sent to rescue the survivors.

In the Roman Rite, the wording of the prayer of exorcism is: " Almighty and ever-living God, you sent your only Son into the world to cast out the power of Satan, spirit of evil, to rescue man from the kingdom of darkness and bring him into the splendour of your kingdom of light.

Most battles in this period were between besieging armies and relief columns sent to rescue the besieged.

* July – In an attempt to rescue survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a search party is sent ashore, in Goede Hoops boat, which smashes against rocks and sinks: 8 sailors drown ; 3 more disappear ashore.

One of the slave girls sent a letter challenging the Caliph saying that he cannot rescue them.

They are sent on a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ( Ian McDiarmid ), who has been kidnapped by Dooku and Separatist leader General Grievous ( Matthew Wood ).

A Roman fleet, sent to rescue Regulus and his troops, is wrecked in a storm off Sicily.

In the opening of Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to rescue Chancellor Palpatine ( ultimately revealed as Sidious ' alter ego ) from Separatist leader General Grievous's ( Matthew Wood ) flagship.

The London Fire Brigade sent 14 fire engines to the scene, including four urban search and rescue vehicles.

In 1607 he was sent by the board to Sukadana West Kalimantan to rescue Hans Roeff, who had died when Blommaert arrived.

Israel sent rescue teams and medical aid to Peru after earthquakes in 1970, 2005 and 2007.

As well as providing humanitarian supplies, Israel has also sent rescue teams and medical personnel and set up mobile field hospitals in disaster-stricken areas worldwide.

Thiệu sent infantry from his 7th Division from Biên Hòa, a town just north of Saigon, to help rescue Diệm.

The assassination of the two remaining candidates throws things into confusion: Coral is kidnapped by agents of Chaos ( who want her because the Jewel of Judgement is her eye ), and pursued by Merlin and Jurt, who call on the assistance of Luke, Dalt and Nayda: they find themselves having to fight agents of the Pattern as well as the Logrus to rescue her, and finally confront the Pattern itself and threaten to damage it by spilling their Amberite blood on it, if it does not back off from their conflict ( the four others are sent safely away while Luke remains: contact is lost just after he says " Shit, I spilled it!

It was from Zbąszyn that Berta Grynszpan sent a postcard to Herschel in Paris, telling him what had happened and pleading with him to rescue them and arrange for them to emigrate to America-something totally beyond his powers.

A warlord then went to the exiled Emperor's rescue and in response the Hōjō sent forces again commanded by Ashikaga Takauji to attack Kyoto.

Leon C. Phillips put the area under martial law, but because the Oklahoma National Guard had been activated for service during World War II, he sent state troopers to rescue victims, maintain order and prevent looting.

Five days later, on October 24, the British fleet sent by Clinton to rescue the British army arrived.

Simpson sent Alexander McLeod south to rescue the remnants of Smith's party and their goods.

Learning of this, Tigranes hurriedly sent 6000 cavalrymen to the city in order to rescue his wives and some of his assets.