Possessives

• ship: On their third run, they took the ship's lifeboat in tow with luggage they had saved.

Converse of object

• launch: There would be no time to launch the lifeboats, call for help of even say goodbye.

• lower: The crew struggled for some time to lower a lifeboat which had jammed.

• enclose: So far three sail, including the Lady Anne, and a replica enclosed lifeboat.

• assist: Hamble Inshore Lifeboat then assisted by taking them on to Port Hamble, to where the cruiser, was also towed.

• locate: The lifeboat soon located the vessel south east of Chichester Bar.

Adjective modifier

• inshore: Today the offshore lifeboat station is at the end of the pier, whilst the inshore lifeboat operates from the beach.

• all-weather: An emergency call from a member of the public alerted the Coastguard, who immediately requested the Torbay inshore and all-weather lifeboats to launch.

• starboard: Soon after leaving the dock we anchored for a safety drill including launching the starboard lifeboat.

• offshore: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has supplied a series of boats, the last offshore lifeboat being the ' Manchester Unity of Oddfellows ' .

Modifies a noun

• davit: The promenade decks aboard the Gustloff with her lifeboat gantry davits high above.

• crew: A number of the lifeboat crew suffered minor injuries.

• heroine: There is a memorial in the churchyard to the Northumbrian lifeboat heroine, Grace Darling.

• drill: They started in Monte ' with the perfect antidote for a New Year hangover in the form of a lifeboat drill for everybody.

• station: His studio is a former lifeboat station on the North coast of Cornwall.

• disaster: The Great Lifeboat Disaster of 1886 B y J. Allen Miller; new edition by Andrew Farthing.

Noun used with modifier

• stromness: Injured crewman hospitalized A crew member who had injured his fingers was taken off a fishing boat by the Stromness Lifeboat on Wednesday.

• inflatable: Recently my wife and I saw the small inflatable lifeboats launched from the Tynemouth life boat and practicing for in shore rescues.

• motor: It became apparent only a motor lifeboat could attempt a rescue of the remaining people on the wreck.

• class: All cash raised on the day will go toward a new £ 2.5m Tamar class lifeboat for the RNLI lifeboat station at Angle.