A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills...
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Look up lifeboat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lifeboat may refer to: Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape...
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Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912. The ship had 20 lifeboats that, in total, could accommodate 1,178...
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Slurry Water Ship transport Barge Boat Jet ski Jetboat Lifeboat (rescue) Lifeboat (shipboard) Narrowboat Punt (boat) Wherry Ferry Cable ferry Horse-drawn...
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TEMPSC (category Lifeboats)
twin fall lifeboat (32-100 personnel) and free fall lifeboat (30-70 personnel). Oil platform Lifeboat (shipboard) Totally Enclosed Lifeboats did not become...
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secure the hatch (lifeboat launch sequence) M038 — start the motor (lifeboat launch sequence) M039 — lower the lifeboat to the water (lifeboat launch sequence)...
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there was not even a bucket available for bailing, and the single lifeboat (shipboard) had a hole in the bottom and had no oars. At around 1 am on 18 August...
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shipboard extras are of European origin however as the ship begins to sink,(and the outdoor filming moves to Inland Sea) a majority of the shipboard guests...
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Company. p. 148. House, David (21 December 2013). Seamanship Techniques: Shipboard and Marine Operations (4th ed.). London: Routledge. Proceedings of the...
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children after a scandalous affair. One plot line relates the tentative shipboard romance of two schoolteachers, Lawrence Beesley (David Warner, later appearing...
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ostentatious American women, the scourge of any place they infest, and worse on shipboard than anywhere. Many of them carry tiny dogs, and lead husbands around...
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a helicopter traverse device developed by the JMSA was installed. The shipboard helicopters were the Bell 212 air-sea rescue helicopters in the early...
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Submarines in the United States Navy (redirect from Lifeboat League)
near targeted islands during aerial attacks. In what became known as the "Lifeboat League", pilots were informed that they could ditch their damaged planes...
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is a multifunction self-rescue dinghy, designed for use as a proactive lifeboat (as well as a yacht tender) that allows the sailor to sail to safety. Callahan...
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original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018. "47-foot Motor Lifeboat". "Keel Laying Ceremony Marks Production of New Response Boat" (Press release)...
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the ship, the pirates retreated, taking the ship's master hostage in a lifeboat. Bainbridge, Halyburton, and Boxer shadowed the pirates, and with FBI assistance...
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designed as an integrated institution for the education and training of shipboard officers and ratings and shore-based management personnel.[citation needed]...
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supervision of diving and salvage operations (including towing), and serving as shipboard seamanship specialists. Undesignated seamen, or those who have not selected...
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merchant seaman in lifeboat utilization and handling, and Ship Ahoy ! : Nautical Notes for Ocean Travellers (c.1930), a treatise on shipboard operations for...
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after the war. He invented a lifeboat, which earned him a gold medal from the Royal Humane Society and the nickname "Lifeboat". He developed a practical...
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end to common practices such as flogging and shanghaiing, and increased shipboard safety and living standards. The United States Merchant Marine is also...
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Curtiz also appeared in Atlantis in a small supporting role. To film the shipboard scenes, Nordisk Film chartered the Danish ocean liner C. F. Tietgen. However...
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combination of the obsessiveness of Moby-Dick's Captain Ahab and the shipboard rivalry found in Mutiny on the Bounty. Although based on a novel of the...
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as the new owners would obtain new, local call signs for any existing shipboard radio stations. In the U.S., leisure craft with VHF radios may not be...
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which are on standby during helicopter operations, and two fully enclosed lifeboats for 75 personnel. S.A. Agulhas II is fitted with a state-of-the-art Raytheon...
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flight deck firefighters. Investigators also recommended cross-training shipboard dentists as anesthetists, as one had been assigned to Enterprise which...
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brush with Rokoff. Afterward, Tarzan sails for Cape Town and strikes up a shipboard acquaintance with Hazel Strong, Jane's best friend. Also aboard are Rokoff...
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the bulky shipboard life belts nearby (only the CORB children had kapok life vests). The passengers still would have had a daily lifeboat drill, but...
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Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2010. "Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System". US NOAA. June 1993. Archived...
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1962, a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye was catapulted off Enterprise in the first shipboard test of a nose-wheel launch bar designed to replace the catapult bridle...
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