News agency photos of the vessels showed that a lifeboat had been blown away on impact.
"It was as if they were in a sinking ship," Williams recalls, "and we were a lifeboat passing by."
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 sailors lowered a lifeboat.
Survival was legitimate if you had been ordered by an Officer to get into a lifeboat.
“It should make launching and recovering the lifeboat a safer and less-demanding business,” says Nick Ames, Supacat’s managing director.
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.
Two Aussies are adrift in a lifeboat.
New "narrow" Banks would be guaranteed a seat in the lifeboat by the state and heavily regulated for the privilege.
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.
"Silly him," we three muttered: "Why not a lifeboat or, better still, a raft?"
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.
a cranelike device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat).
I was put into lifeboat 13.
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.
The RNLI is now developing a new and faster lifeboat.
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.
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.
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