• A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers. It can be hand...
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  • The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic...
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  • emergency escape Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues Airborne lifeboat, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen Lifeboat (1944 film)...
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    A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills...
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    1956 prompted the reformation of a rescue organisation to serve the town. Ryde Inshore Rescue is an independent lifeboat station within the United Kingdom...
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    Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912. The ship had 20 lifeboats that, in total, could accommodate 1,178...
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  • Since its inception, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has provided lifeboats to lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Once...
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    Penlee Lifeboat Station near Mousehole, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas. After the lifeboat had rescued four...
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    station is called to an average of sixty rescues a year. A lifeboat was first placed at Brighton in 1809. A lifeboat station was first established by the...
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  • (rescue) Search and rescue (Ireland) Search and rescue (UK) List of lifeboat disasters in Britain and Ireland "Go Orange Day for Independent Lifeboats"...
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