" Meanwhile, Nicosians crew were cheering wildly from the lifeboats.

Merchantmen armed with guns ( which most were ) fell outside the protection from attack without warning and the requirement to place survivors " in a place of safety " ( for which lifeboats did not qualify ); therefore, it made no difference if she was a troop ship.

Between 1856 and 1969 lifeboats were operated by the RNLI.

In 2004, the Hunstanton lifeboats were the busiest in Norfolk ( around 40 call-outs in 2004, 52 in 2003 ).

Communication with lightvessels proved to be a major problem for Trinity House ; lightvessel crews were well-placed to observe ships in distress, but could not always alert lifeboats on shore.

The swimming events were held in a temporary pond near Skinker and Wydown Boulevards, where " lifesaving demonstrations " took place of unsinkable lifeboats for ocean liners.

Rowing lifeboats were stationed there through the 19th century.

Others were ferried from the beaches to the larger ships, and thousands were carried back to Britain by the famous " little ships of Dunkirk ", a flotilla of around 700 merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats — the smallest of which was the fishing boat Tamzine, now in the Imperial War Museum — whose civilian crews were called into service for the emergency.

Four lifeboats were utilized during shooting.

The first two lifeboats were kept in a boathouse on the town beach at Hugh Town.

A factor contributing to the high loss of life was that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone.

On 21 November 2009 both lifeboats were transferred to a new lifeboat station in Queen's Drive at the eastern end of the beach.

During the 50 years that the lifeboat station was operating there were three lifeboats: Charlie Peake ( 1869 – 1886 ), 7 launches and 10 lives saved.

By 1908 there were 280 RNLI lifeboats and 17 independents.

Subsequently, the facilities were put to use by the firm of T & W Forestt constructing lifeboats for Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Between 1852 and 1890, several of the institution's lifeboats were constructed in Limehouse.

Dozens of workers fled the flames and were rescued by lifeboats and helicopters, however 11 were killed and 17 were injured in the incident.

Bride and the others on B were later assisted into other lifeboats and were eventually taken aboard the RMS Carpathia.

The ship requested the Australian government's permission to unload the asylum seekers at Christmas Island, arguing that the ship could not sail to Indonesia, because it was unseaworthy — the ship was not designed for 438 people, only its 27 crew ; and there were no lifeboats or other safety equipment available for the asylum seekers in the case of an emergency.

* The Atlantic 85 class lifeboats serve the shores of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a part of the RNLI inshore fleet.

The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

Ruins of ten wooden guano-mining buildings, the two-story house among them, could still be seen by the Amaranth crew, who left Jarvis aboard two lifeboats.

During US involvement in WW II, April 29, 1942, Socony's unescorted tanker, named Mobiloil, was sunk by a German U-boat ( U-108 captained by Klaus Schlotz ), and all 52 people survived after 86 hours adrift in lifeboats.

Space stations typically carry enough lifeboats only for personnel down to, and including, the rank of Gil.

Only 193 of the 643 on board survive after troops stand firm on the deck so as not to flood the lifeboats containing women and children.

In maritime navigation they are placed on bridge abutments, buoys, ships and, especially, lifeboats, to ensure that these show up strongly on ship radar screens.

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

Among the many things that he developed are self-righting lifeboats, tension-spoke wheels, the " Universal Railway " ( his term for caterpillar tractors ), automatic signals for railway crossings, seat belts, small scale helicopters, and a kind of prototypical internal combustion engine fuelled by gunpowder.

The Fairview Titanic graves also include the burial place and marker of William Denton Cox, a heroic steward who died while escorting third class passengers to the lifeboats.

The town's museum now known as The Mo includes a collection of old lifeboats, various displays, a viewing tower and houses the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm visitor centre.

Sheringham is reputed to be the only place in the world to have four of its original lifeboats.

An old sail-powered lifeboat is preserved in the former lifeboat shed and the three other preserved RNLI lifeboats are kept in another centre.

Larger auxiliary vessels are generally called tenders, pinnaces or lifeboats.

Dinghies are sometimes used as lifeboats ; recently self-rescue dinghies have come back into use as proactive lifeboats that can be sailed to safety.

In cases where the coast guard is primarily concerned with coordinating rather than executing rescue operations, lifeboats are often provided by civilian voluntary organizations, such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the United Kingdom, whilst aircraft may be provided by the countries ' armed forces, such as Sea Kings operated by the RAF and Royal Navy in addition to any of the coast guard's own assets.

The vessels operated within the SAM include the Maritime Police patrol boats, the Lifeguard Institute lifeboats, the harbourmasters harbour boats, the National Republican Guard Coastal Control Unit surveillance boats and the Portuguese Navy naval ships.

HM Coastguard does not possess many of its own lifeboats but does have several MCA Falcons which are a type of lifeboat that are used in areas that might not necessarily have a lifeboat provided by the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution, although it often wet leases commercial helicopters — mainly Sikorsky S-92s and AgustaWestland AW139s — and tugs to provide search and rescue cover in certain areas.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition, as if a phonograph needle were stuck in one groove ; ;

Initially, balls of wool referred as ball badminton were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck.

Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.

Knife symbols can be found in various cultures to symbolize all stages of life ; for example, a knife placed under the bed while giving birth is said to ease the pain, or, stuck into the headboard of a cradle, to protect the baby ; knives were included in some Anglo-Saxon burial rites, so the dead would not be defenseless in the next world.

" He also says that when he and Palin were asked to do the sketch for Saturday Night Live, they sat down together to try to remember the lines, and when they got stuck they considered just going out and stopping somebody on the street to ask how it went, since everybody seemed to have it memorised.

He found that in certain situations the endpoints of strings ( strings with " loose ends ") would not be able to move with complete freedom as they were attached, or stuck within certain regions of space.

Following the decline of the quill in the 1820s, following the introduction of the maintenance-free, mass produced steel dip nib by John Mitchell, knives were still manufactured but became known as desk knives, stationery knives or latterly as the name stuck ' pen ' knives.

They next featured in The Five Companions and were stuck in an alternative version of the Death Zone with the Fifth Doctor and various companions.

The Padres started April 2006 with a 9 – 15 record and were stuck in the cellar of the NL West.

The original cyanoacrylates ( the chemical name for the glue ) were discovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for the war, when a team of scientists headed by Harry Wesley Coover Jr stumbled upon a formulation that stuck to everything that it came in contact with.

However, cyanoacrylates were quickly rejected by the American researchers precisely because they stuck to everything.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

The ' PC Brigade ' were also featured as if they were the fire brigade, stating they attended emergencies such as ' collapsed turbans ', freeing gypsies from railings while leaving British people stuck tight.

These were stuck in hats or into clothing and hard

As Hannah Arendt pointed out, internment camps became the " only nation " of such stateless people, since they were often considered " undesirable " and were stuck in an illegal situation ( their country had expelled them or deprived them of their nationality, while they hadn't been naturalized, thus living in a judicial no man's land ).

The method and apparatus were patented in 1953 and the name of Gray stuck to the codes.

Afterwards, there were so many arrows stuck in him by the time he fought free that he resembled a hedgehog.

" The upgrade, required to run OS / VS1 or OS / VS2, was not cost effective for most customers by the time IBM could actually deliver and install it, so many customers were stuck with these machines running MVT until their lease ended.

Clark was criticized for his " inability to do math " in failing to predict the outcome, not only because he was a minority situation, but also because several members of his caucus would be absent for the crucial budget vote, as one was ill and two were stuck abroad on official business.

Once we wrote the dog into the show, we were stuck with him.

The Greys were led by Matt Baxter with a 9-2 record and 2. 47 ERA while the bullpen was led by Terry Pearson, who recorded 20 saves and a. 50 ERA and stuck out 43 batters in 36 innings while only walking eight batters for the entire season.