lifeboat造句

The sailors lowered a lifeboat.

I was put into lifeboat 13.

Two Aussies are adrift in a lifeboat.

The RNLI is now developing a new and faster lifeboat.

Survival was legitimate if you had been ordered by an Officer to get into a lifeboat.

"Silly him," we three muttered: "Why not a lifeboat or, better still, a raft?"

News agency photos of the vessels showed that a lifeboat had been blown away on impact.

a cranelike device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat).

New "narrow" Banks would be guaranteed a seat in the lifeboat by the state and heavily regulated for the privilege.

“It should make launching and recovering the lifeboat a safer and less-demanding business,” says Nick Ames, Supacat’s managing director.

"It was as if they were in a sinking ship," Williams recalls, "and we were a lifeboat passing by."

He felt the ship scrape the iceberg and hustled the family out of its third-class quarters and toward the lifeboat that would take them to safety.

For some, Britain and Switzerland are Iceland or Ireland writ large, but without Ireland’s lifeboat-its membership of a large and liquid currency pool.

Her employers refused to go into a lifeboat at first because Duff-Gordon was not allowed on board, as they were designated for women and children only.

Some witnesses believed he quietly slipped into in the first lifeboat to be launched, others say he fought his way through the crowds and gun-fire to squeeze onto the very last boat to leave.

The resulting design, NASA's HL-20, underwent significant development and testing and was intended to be a lifeboat for astronauts aboard the space station. But the HL-20 program lapsed.

So I've been busy with a couple of projects, and one of them was this, the Nutmeg, a 1930s ship's lifeboat, which I've been restoring in the garden of my beach house in England.

Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.