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{{Image|CCGC Cape Sutil at CCG Station Port Hardy.jpg|right|350px|A [[Canadian Coast Guard]] Search and Rescue lifeboat.}} | {{Image|CCGC Cape Sutil at CCG Station Port Hardy.jpg|right|350px|A [[Canadian Coast Guard]] Search and Rescue lifeboat.}} | ||
Organizations with [[Search and Rescue]] duties maintain shore-based '''lifeboats''' ready to go to sea to search for lost or stranded individuals. | Organizations with [[Search and Rescue]] duties maintain shore-based '''lifeboats''' ready to go to sea to search for lost or stranded individuals. | ||
The first boats built with rescue in mind were constructed in the mid-eighteenth century. | The first boats built with rescue in mind were constructed in the mid-eighteenth century.<ref name=RescueAtSea> | ||
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| url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=vYpHHMVWdpoC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22lifesaving+services%22&source=bl&ots=WADTXEZQAc&sig=ZbY1-rwgawYvWmDJlZGFZ59kkFA&hl=en&ei=QUWfSdeFNZjeM6yrvOIL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA20,M1 | |||
| title=Rescue at Sea | |||
| publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] | |||
| isbn=1591147131 | |||
| author=Clayton Evans | |||
| date=2004 | |||
| accessdate=2009-02-20 | |||
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Modern search and rescue lifeboats are self-righting, and equipped with modern navigation technology. | Modern search and rescue lifeboats are self-righting, and equipped with modern navigation technology. | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:22, 16 May 2009
This article is about search and rescue vessels. For other uses of the term Lifeboat, please see Lifeboat.
Organizations with Search and Rescue duties maintain shore-based lifeboats ready to go to sea to search for lost or stranded individuals. The first boats built with rescue in mind were constructed in the mid-eighteenth century.[1] Modern search and rescue lifeboats are self-righting, and equipped with modern navigation technology.
References
- ↑ Clayton Evans (2004). Rescue at Sea. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591147131. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.