lifeboats 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. Passengers clung desperately onto the lifeboats.

2. Well, they're gonna take them lifeboats.

3. The crew took to the lifeboats.

4. 21 Passengers clung desperately onto the lifeboats.

5. The crew launched the lifeboats three days ago.

6. The Titanic had 16 lifeboats and four other collapsible boats.

7. People ran to the lifeboats on each side of the deck.

8. When everyone's running for the lifeboats, who's going to care?

9. He sent out SOS messages and ordered that the lifeboats be lowered.

10. Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .

11. He also informed Smith of the severe shortage of lifeboats on board the ship.

12. The lifeboats were out of service, having been heavily damaged by repeated shelling and air attacks.

13. Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats

14. There was no time to launch the lifeboats because the ferry capsized with such alarming speed.

15. Contrariety "‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." — Voltaire

16. Ismay later boards Collapsible C (one of the last lifeboats to leave the ship) just before it is lowered.

17. 🔊 They placed the lifeboats in the rear part of the ship, so I headed Abaft to retrieve one

18. One of the reasons for the terrible loss of life on the Titanic is that there were not enough lifeboats.

19. The three-person Soyuz capsules will serve as lifeboats for crews stationed aboard the international space station during its assembly.

20. After its passengers and crew were allowed thirty minutes to board lifeboats, U-69 torpedoed, shelled, and sank the ship.

21. However, there were too few life jackets, and the mechanism that lowers the lifeboats into the sea did not work properly.

22. 7 It will have been one of the most comprehensively designed and tested lifeboats to have been built anywhere in the world.

23. As indicated by the illustration, hurriedly leaving an endangered ship by taking to insecure lifeboats would be as dangerous as staying aboard a sinking ship.

24. During a rush for the lifeboats, Murdoch shoots Tommy Ryan as well as another passenger in a momentary panic, then commits suicide out of guilt.

25. The ship's lifeboats and logbook were missing when she was found on 31 January 1921 at the Diamond Shoals, off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

26. 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.

27. Some passengers jumped into the water to swim to shore, while others, ready to evacuate the vessel, were delayed by crew members up to 45 minutes, as they resisted immediately lowering the lifeboats.

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