Lifeboat (5383 bytes)
1: ''For the 1944 movie, see [[Lifeboat (movie)]].''
3: ...unched as coastal rescue vehicles. Other types of lifeboat are stationed at offshore platforms.
5: ...image:lifeboat.brixham.750pix.jpg|thumb|250px|The lifeboat at Brixham, south Devon, England, kept permanentl...
7: ...]] both claimed to be the [[inventor of the first Lifeboat]].
9: ==Ship-launched lifeboats==

Lifeboat (movie) (660 bytes)
1: ...ck]]. The whole movie takes place in a [[Lifeboat|lifeboat]].
3: ...[Germany|German]] captain of the U-boat is in the lifeboat as well.

Penlee lifeboat disaster (3511 bytes)
2: ... of [[Mousehole]], home of the crew and where the lifeboat was based.
4: ...rse and put out a [[distress signal]]. The Penlee lifeboat ''Solomon Browne'' was called to her aid.
8: ...out from the ''Union Star's'' wheelhouse onto the lifeboat, before being force turn away from the ship.
12: ...rd fall. When she had resurfaced only four of the Lifeboatmen were aboard.
14: The lifeboat from [[Sennan Cove]] tried to search and rescue, ...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (2734 bytes)
1: [[image:Lifeboat_RNLI.jpg|thumb|right|RNLI Lifeboat at Calshot Spit]]
3: The '''Royal National Lifeboat Institution''' ('''RNLI''') is a charity dedicate...
5: Since the RNLI was founded its [[lifeboat]]s have saved over 136,275 lives.
7: ...an active fleet of 323 [[lifeboat]]s based at 231 lifeboat stations around the coasts of the [[United Kingdo...
14: ...h 27 lifeboatmen. (See [[Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster]]).

Maroon (rocket) (247 bytes)
1: ...ifeboat Institution]] to call the crew when the [[lifeboat]] needs to be launched.

Penlee (274 bytes)
3: ...ng point of the [[Penlee lifeboat disaster|Penlee lifeboat]], which was lost in service in [[1981]].

Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster (2329 bytes)
3: ... [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]], with 28 lifeboat crew lost.
7: The [[Southport]] [[Lifeboat]] was launched in response to [[distress signal]]...
9: ...he first 500 yards, then sail was hoisted and the lifeboat proceeded to about two miles off Southport.
11: In the words of [[Patrick Howarth]], author of ''Lifeboat: In Danger's hour'':
14: ...he crew had lashed themselves to the rigging. The lifeboat (having been rowed down the [[River_Ribble|Ribble...

William Wouldhave (1038 bytes)
1: ...Lionel Lukin]] for the title of inventor of the [[lifeboat]]. His tombstone, erected thirteen years before L...
3: ...ventor of that invaluable blessing to mankind the Lifeboat''’
7: ...ed to the construction of the first purpose-built lifeboat.

Culmer White (1866 bytes)
1: The '''Culmer White''' was a [[19th century]] lifeboat of the [[Isle of Thanet]].
3: ...well into the 1960’s with 134 White’s Lifeboat’s ordered, completed and delivered.
5: Whites patented lifeboats featured a “double skin of planking with w...
7: Ironically, John White declared, a lifeboat “has no reason to capsize at all and there ...
9: ...ing Thomas White’s lead, the first Ramsgate Lifeboat was installed in 1852, this was to be called &#82...

Grace Darling (1518 bytes)
3: .... Knowing that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from the shore, Grace and her father t...
5: ...red Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]] and a lifeboat with her name was presented to [[Holy Island]].
7: ...al National Lifeboat Institution]] [[Mersey class lifeboat]] at [[Seahouses]] bears the name ''Grace Darling...

Ship's tender (1432 bytes)
1: ...age:Lifeboat_tender-700px.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Lifeboat tender of the ''[[MS Oosterdam|Oosterdam]]''; not...
7: ...k]], and may at first glance appear to be regular lifeboats; but they are usually larger and better-equipped...

Mary White (ship) (3506 bytes)
1: ...least 1851, such was the bravery displayed by the Lifeboat crew on this occasion that it excited a great dea...
3: ...itten to celebrate the occasion, the then unnamed Lifeboat which had only recently (July 1850) been presente...
5: ...oxswain Solomon Holbourn, mustered a crew for the Lifeboat.
7: ...ten crewmen aboard, to the relative safety of the Lifeboat.
9: ...aining of her crew, when the rope snapped and the Lifeboat broke away from the wreck, which was rapidly goin...

Henry Blogg (132 bytes)
1: '''Henry Blogg''' was a famous [[lifeboat]] man from [[Cromer]] on the north [[Norfolk]] co...

Sheringham (1711 bytes)
8: ...old sail-powered lifeboat is preserved in the old lifeboat shed. The railway line to [[Cromer]] and [[Norwic...

Kingsdown Kent (3686 bytes)
3: ==The Kingsdown lifeboat.==
5: ...gain the gift of Mr W. Furguson. The crew of that Lifeboat was as follows:
9: ...ad rowed stroke whilst he served on the ‘Sabrina’ Lifeboat and participated in several calls including that ...
11: ...also served as the last Coxswain of the Kingsdown lifeboat, the ''Charles Hargrave'', until the closure of t...
13: Kingsdown did in fact have a fifth Lifeboat, the ''Barbara Fleming'', but although on station...

Cap Lopez (3579 bytes)
5: ... conditions, a complement of men from each of the lifeboats boarded the wreck, an anchor being laid out in a...
7: ...terwards, “a great towering sea struck the Walmer lifeboat, broke the rope connecting her with the vessel, s...
9: ...ke to the rigging, and from their to jump for the Lifeboat whenever the opportunity presented itself. By thi...
11: ...were well cared for at the Sailors Home, with the Lifeboats being towed back to their stations by the Harbou...

Charles Hargrave (313 bytes)
1: Two successive [[lifeboat]]s based at Kingsdown in Kent were named after ''...

Ada Maria Clarke (267 bytes)
1: ...[1912]], being rescued by the [[SS Carpathia]] in lifeboat 14, and returning to [[England]]. Ada's husband [...

Muckle Flugga (289 bytes)
1: ...anned [[lighthouse]], and is supplied by the Unst lifeboat, which can put in to a sheltered inlet.

Berthon Boat (1491 bytes)
1: ...trol would thereafter be fitted with sufficient [[lifeboat]]s for all and the first of those to be fitted wa...
5: ...sk it was decided to reduce the general amount of Lifeboats to a level that gave clear access to the decks a...
7: ...apply to the vessels of all countries’. Had more lifeboats been available there would have been sufficient ...

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