Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

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.

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

In all this time only one effective rescue was made by the lifeboat.

Dart Lifeboat Station was opened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896.

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.

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

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.

Grace's brother, William Brooks Darling, was one of the seven fishermen in the lifeboat.

A lifeboat with her name was presented to Holy Island.

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.

In 1866, a lifeboat station had been established on East Looe beach, and in 1878 a new Town Hall was built, the present-day Guildhall.

In Follett's novel, it is implied that the ship may have been sabotaged ; this is directly confirmed in the TV adaptation, even going so far as to show that William Adelin was assassinated whilst on a lifeboat.

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.

She was en route to Bally to visit her ailing mother, and reportedly gave up her seat in a lifeboat to another passenger.

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

The first lifeboat was stationed in the town in 1840.

In response to the sight of the ship in distress the Harbour Master, Coxswain Solomon Holbourn, mustered a crew for the lifeboat.

Seth Lakeman, an English folk singer, songwriter, and musician wrote a song called " Solomon Browne " about the Penlee lifeboat disaster.

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

Manchester Unity of Oddfellows ( 1961 – 90 ) an Oakley Class lifeboat, Sheringham ’ s last offshore boat.

While having originally considered posing as a body floating past the lifeboat – which he later considered for his cameo in Frenzy – after his success with weight loss, Hitchcock decided to pose for " before " and " after " photos for an advertisement for a fictional weight-loss drug, " Reduco ", shown in a newspaper which was in the boat.

::* Ramsgate lifeboat station Provides an inshore boat and an offshore boat.

A boarding boat was kept on a davit that was lowered into the water to ferry the crew to the lifeboat.

The current lifeboat station, housing both an all-weather lifeboat and an inshore rescue boat, is at the harbour entrance.

He recounts the story of his life and his 227-day journey on a lifeboat when his boat sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to Winnipeg.

It was the base for the Katie Hannan ( this life boat was damaged in 2008, after running aground during a rescue at Rathlin Island, Now based as a training boat for the RNLI ), a Severn class lifeboat and Ken and Mary, a D – class inshore lifeboat of the RNLI.

The first lifeboat was sent to Burnham by the Bridgwater Corporation in 1836, and a replacement boat in 1847.

The lifeboat was removed in 1930 because of the difficulty in getting a full crew, and because the launching arrangements were not suitable for a powered boat.

Bride was washed off the ship as the boat deck flooded, but managed to scramble onto the upturned lifeboat Collapsible ' B ', where he remained until being rescued by the Carpathia the following morning.

Hubbard subsequently wrote of the disaster, singling out the story of Ida Straus, who as a woman was supposed to be placed on a lifeboat in precedence to the men, but she refused to board the boat: " Not I — I will not leave my husband.

At the end of the spit are Calshot Castle ( built by King Henry VIII ), an RNLI lifeboat, an NCI station, several slipways, a former Royal Navy and Royal Air Force flying boat station and Calshot Activities Centre.

In 2004, a group of thirteen people on the island tour boat North Coast Explorer were rescued by lifeboat.

When it was time to board a life boat, Madeleine Astor, her maid, and her nurse had to crawl through the first class promenade window into the tilting lifeboat 4 ( which had been lowered down to A deck to take on more passengers ).

In 1983 a new lifeboat station ( still known as ' Penlee ') was opened nearby at Newlyn where a faster, larger boat could be kept moored afloat in the harbour.