lifeboat in English

noun
1
a specially constructed boat launched from land to rescue people in distress at sea.
On Sunday the lifeboat rescued a yacht which had run aground off Heir Island.

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1. Lifeboat?Periscope?

2. Lifeboat? Periscope?

3. Passengers and crew! Follow the lifeboat man to the lifeboat stations on the embarkation deck.

4. Go to the lifeboat.

5. It's a dinghy, not a lifeboat.

6. Fleet escapes the sinking ship aboard Lifeboat 6.

7. What is the purpose of the "Bowsing tackle" (block and tackle) supplied at each end of the lifeboat? lifeboat Bowsing_tackle

8. Young Bruce's flirtation with Padstow lifeboat didn't make good reading.

9. 22 January 1906, the SS Valencia's lifeboat no. 5: The lifeboat went adrift when the ship sank off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

10. Four men have taken the ship's captain hostage in a lifeboat.

11. There has been an offshore lifeboat in the area since 1791.

12. ‘Abandon ship’ drill (including lowering a rescue and a lifeboat to the water)

13. Abandon ship drill (including lowering a rescue and a lifeboat to the water

14. Shortly before my military service, we had purchased the hull of a lifeboat.

15. The men pull mightily on the oars as the lifeboat plunges into the tempest.

16. This motel is sinking in red ink... and I'm offering you the last lifeboat.

17. So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it fall away.

18. Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people.

19. When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police.

20. 24 Last night Skegness lifeboat and a number of coastal rescue teams were scouring six miles of shoreline.

21. 25 Last night Skegness lifeboat and a number of coastal rescue teams were scouring six miles of shoreline.

22. Two merchant seamen in the engine room were killed immediately and a third died later on a lifeboat.

23. On today's cruise ships, you have to have a lifeboat drill within twenty - four hours of embarkation.

24. After the Wiarda left the area two survivors from the U-boat climbed on to an abandoned lifeboat.

25. Redcar lifeboat was launched when the man was seen floating out to sea in the four foot dinghy.

26. 30 A cheque for that amount in pounds was later presented to Captain Shearer, honorary secretary of Eastbourne lifeboat.

27. Dudley managed to improvise a sea anchor to keep the lifeboat headed into the waves and maintain her stability.

28. We have been pulled from the dangerous “waters” of this wicked world into the “lifeboat” of Jehovah’s earthly organization.

29. 5 People were fighting for places in the lifeboat,(www.Sentencedict.com) and there was a real danger of it capsizing.

30. As the lifeboat reached his perch, it struck the raft, and a cry of exultation rose from the spectators.

31. In the lifeboat, you and the others take turns rowing to shore, picking up other survivors along the way.

32. CCGC Cape Discovery is a 47-ft motor lifeboat, part of the newest class of search and rescue cutters put into service across Canada.

33. The lifeboat was found floating in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada in remarkably good condition 27 years after the sinking.

34. Lifeboat bid gets a poor response He was accompanied by a Boatful of cooks, stewards, illustrators, telegraphers, pressmen, editors, colleagues and friends.

35. A LIFEBOAT crew spent an hour looking for a Canoeist in the early hours of the morning before deciding it was a false alarm.

36. On the night of the disaster, Lifeboat 1 was the fourth to be launched, with 12 people aboard, including Duff-Gordon, his wife and her secretary.

37. On 6 January she sank the hulk of a liberty ship and on 7 January was despatched to the waters off Capri to search for a lifeboat.

38. The escape routes shall provide a safe escape to the lifeboat and liferaft embarkation decks and shall be located at the fore and aft ends of the space.

39. Children , families with children and women in general have then a higher probability of surviving , while men have a higher willingness to surrender a seat on a lifeboat . "

40. The new building and the search and rescue cutter are part of the Government of Canada's $115.5 million investment announced in 2000 to provide new lifeboats and lifeboat stations across the country.

41. He recounts the story of his life and his 227-day journey on a lifeboat when his ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America.

42. On the Titanic, children were 31 percent more likely to make it into a lifeboat, but aboard the Lusitania, children fared slightly worse than other passengers, the team found.

43. Fabrizio does not board a lifeboat when the Titanic sinks and is killed when one of the ship's funnels breaks and crashes into the water, crushing him to death.

44. (14.63 m) motor lifeboat; part of the newest class of search and rescue cutters put into service across Canada, and is capable of operating in all weather conditions in semi-sheltered waters.

45. Commensal (plural Commensals) An organism partaking in a Commensal relationship2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate (2003), →ISBN, page 260: The tree did indeed grow right out of the algae, as I had seen from the lifeboat

46. ‘A number of exercises were executed, including dropping the winchman on the Afterdeck, transferring lifeboat crew to the helicopter, and a stretcher exercise.’ ‘This line leads to the stern, where the first part of the ship to come into view is the Afterdeck.’

47. Lucy Noël Martha Leslie, Countess of Rothes (December 25th, 1878 – September 12th, 1956) was a British philanthropist and social leader, a heroine of theTitanicdisaster, famous for taking the tiller of her lifeboat and later helping row the craft to the safety of the rescue shipCarpathia