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  2. Lifeboat (rescue) - Wikipedia

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    There are generally three types of boat, in-land (used on lakes and rivers), in-shore (used closer to shore) and off-shore (into deeper waters and further out to sea). A rescue lifeboat is a boat designed with specialised features for searching for, rescuing and saving the lives of people in peril at sea or other large bodies of water.

  3. Lifeboat (1944 film) - Wikipedia

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    Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix , alongside Walter Slezak , Mary Anderson , John Hodiak , Henry Hull , Heather Angel , Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee .

  4. Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Wikipedia

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    Memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man to the lifeboat rescue of the sailors from the St George in 1830. The institution's committee set itself three objectives: [3] To award medals and/or cash to those involved in rescuing people from shipwrecks. To provide Captain Manby's line-throwing mortars to all coastguard and lifeboat stations.

  5. International Maritime Rescue Federation - Wikipedia

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    The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports search and rescue (SAR) organisations with the development and improvement of maritime SAR capacity. This is done by providing guidance, facilitating training and enabling SAR providers to share knowledge and expertise between ...

  6. Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright - Wikipedia

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    The Mumbles lifeboat came to rescue the crew. [3] When the Mumbles lifeboat, a wooden sailboat named the Wolverhampton, got into trouble Wright and Ace waded into the surf to rescue the lifeboat crew. They tied their shawls together to use as a rope and rescued two of the lifeboat crewmen who had fallen overboard. [4]

  7. UK lifeboat crew tests drones as search and rescue helpers - AOL

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    Drones are becoming an important part of the emergency services. Police are using them to search for missing people, while fire departments test them as a tool to survey dangerous sites. Until now ...

  8. Lifeboat - Wikipedia

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    Lifeboat, journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; Lifeboat ethics, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat; Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s; Lifeboat Distribution, an international software distributor; Lifeboat Foundation, an existential risk reduction ...

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