The town has no harbour, so the lifeboat has to be launched by tractor, and the fishing boats are hauled up the beach.

The lifeboat John and Sara Eliza Stych was launched at 3 o ' clock to search for a ship reported in trouble off Cape Cornwall.

Two maroons ( bangs ) are the signal for the lifeboat to be launched.

In the 1920s a lifeboat station was built at the end of the pier, enabling a motor lifeboat to be launched beyond the breakers.

His story might have ended there, because the Russian captain, fearing that the lives of other crew members would be endangered, refused to allow a lifeboat to be launched in order to pick up Luckner when he fell overboard in the middle of the ocean.

The chief mate defied the captain ( who had threatened him with a harpoon ), and launched a lifeboat with the help of volunteers.

A new boathouse was built near the beach, although the lifeboat had to be taken across the road before it could be launched.

It is the last remaining example of a rail launched lifeboat station that was common on the Pacific coast.

The launched crew stayed for a week and returned in Soyuz TM-31, which had been docked to ( or nearby ) the station since November 2000 functioning as " lifeboat " for the onboard crew ( Expedition 1 and 2 ).

On 12 January 1899, during a storm, the 10 ton Lynmouth lifeboat was launched but because of the ferocity of the storm could not put out to sea, and was hauled by men and 20 horses over Countisbury and Porlock hills to Porlock Weir where the water in the bay was less rough.

The lifeboat was launched from Broadstairs beach.

The Deal boatman Stephen Pritchard sent a telegram to Ramsgate harbor, asking for the lifeboat there to be launched.

A lifeboat, the Eliza Fernley, was launched from Southport in response to distress signals from the Mexico.

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

It was launched in July 1987, during the long duration expedition Mir EO-2, and acted as a lifeboat for the second segment of that expedition.

It was the fourth Soyuz TM spacecraft to be launched ( one of which wasn't manned ), and like other Soyuz spacecraft, it was treated as a lifeboat for the station's crew while docked.

Rescue lifeboat, usually launched from shore, used to rescue people from the water or from vessels in difficulty.

* At least one collapsible lifeboat was not launched before Titanic sank, but was floated off, upside down, allowing Lightoller and others to survive.

* At one point, a World War II-era lifeboat is seen being launched into the water.

It is used as an alarm or warning, for example the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution uses these rockets to call the crew when the lifeboat needs to be launched.

In the early hours of a fierce January morning in 1917 the Cromer lifeboat was launched to aid a vessel just in sight off Cromer, the Pyrin.

The " Jolly Boat ", a small lifeboat launched from the SS Anglo Saxon on 21 August 1940 after its sinking by the German auxiliary cruiser Widder, carried the surviving members of the ship's crew West across the Atlantic Ocean for sixty-eight days, before finally landing in Eleuthera.

It houses an Atlantic 75 class lifeboat and a smaller D class lifeboat, both of which are launched by davit into the deep water adjoining the pier.

In the summer of 1996, the RNLI decided to station a lifeboat at Kildownet.

The case of R v Dudley and Stephens, in which two men were found guilty of murder for killing and eating a cabin boy while adrift at sea in a lifeboat, set the precedent that necessity is no defence to a charge of murder.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

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.

The Lizard Lighthouse was built at Lizard Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates The Lizard lifeboat station.

* December 8 – The Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt, with the loss of 8 lives.

* Lifeboat Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland

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.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Mersey class lifeboat at Seahouses bears the name Grace Darling.

There has been a lifeboat in Great Yarmouth since at least 1802.

The lifeboat station at Spurn Head was built in 1810.

The St David's lifeboat, located at St Justinian, has saved an estimated 360 people since the first lifeboat was located there in 1869 ; and four lifeboatmen have died while saving others.

The fireship's sails are visible to the rear ; in foreground, the fireship's crew make their escape in a lifeboat, with their commander Constantine Kanaris at the helm.

The lifeboatman's helmet depicted below ( seen at Southport lifeboat station in England on 7 September 2008 ) covers the same area as a motorcycle helmet including all of the ears, Its casing is thinner, and nearer to the size of the head, and has lengthwise ridges.

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

* Lifeboat — Dedicated providers of rescue lifeboat services, usually at sea ( such as by the RNLI in the United Kingdom ).

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.

In 1818, Fuller built the Observatory at Brightling which had been designed by Robert Smirke, and in 1822, he endowed Eastbourne in Sussex with its first lifeboat.

The Borth inshore lifeboat ( ILB ) station was established in 1966 and is located at the southern end of the beach.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution stationed a lifeboat at Kimmeridge in 1868 but it was removed in 1896.