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lifeboat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lifeboat \Life"boat`\ (l[imac]f"b[=o]t`), n. A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Wiktionary
n. a boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
WordNet
n. a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
Wikipedia
Lifeboat is a 1944 American drama thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead with William Bendix. Also in the cast are Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson and John Hodiak. Additional roles in the boat were from Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, and Canada Lee. It is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a sinking passenger vessel following a World War II naval attack.
The film is the first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" films, the others being Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954), and Rear Window (1954). It is the only film Hitchcock made with 20th century Fox. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best CinematographyBlack and White. Tallulah Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actress of the year. Though highly controversial in its time for what many interpreted as a sympathetic depiction of the German U-Boat Captain, Lifeboat is regarded by modern film critics as a Hitchcock classic, and cited as one of Hitchcock's most underrated films.
A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers. It can be hand pulled, sail powered or powered by an engine. Lifeboats may be rigid, inflatable or rigid-inflatable combination hulled vessels.
A lifeboat is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts ( liferafts) are also used. In the military, a lifeboat may double as a whaleboat, dinghy, or gig. The ship's tenders of cruise ships often double as lifeboats. Recreational sailors usually carry inflatable life rafts, though a few prefer small proactive lifeboats that are harder to sink and can be sailed to safety.
Inflatable lifeboats may be equipped with auto-inflation ( carbon dioxide or nitrogen) canisters or mechanical pumps. A quick release and pressure release mechanism is fitted on ships so that the canister or pump automatically inflates the lifeboat, and the lifeboat breaks free of the sinking vessel. Commercial aircraft are also required to carry auto-inflating life rafts in case of an emergency water landing; offshore oil platforms also have liferafts.
Ship-launched lifeboats are lowered from davits on a ship's deck, and are hard to sink in normal circumstances. The cover serves as protection from sun, wind and rain, can be used to collect rainwater, and is normally made of a reflective or fluorescent material that is highly visible. Lifeboats have oars, flares and mirrors for signaling, first aid supplies, and food and water for several days. Some lifeboats are more capably equipped to permit self-rescue, with supplies such as a radio, an engine and sail, heater, navigational equipment, solar water stills, rainwater catchments and fishing equipment.
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Life-Saving Appliance Code (LSA) requires certain emergency equipment be carried on each lifeboat and liferaft used on international voyages. Modern lifeboats carry an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and either a radar reflector or Search and Rescue Transponder (SART).
Lifeboat may refer to:
- Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape
- Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues
- Airborne lifeboat, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen
- Lifeboat (film), a 1944 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1), television episode from season 7
- Lifeboat ethics, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat
- Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Lifeboat, a 1972 album by the Sutherland Brothers
- Lifeboat, a 2008 album by Jimmy Herring
- "Lifeboats", a song on Snow Patrol's 2008 album, A Hundred Million Suns
- Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s
- Lifeboat Distribution, an international software distributor
- Lifeboat Foundation, an existential risk reduction organization.
Usage examples of "lifeboat".
Vannier and Ferris to get into the lifeboat, called to McKinnon to cast off aft, and half-ran, half-stumbled up the heeling, slippery deck to where the girl and the soldier stood half-way between the aftercastle screen door and the ladder leading to the poop-deck above.
Two of the spaceplanes had simply loaded the lifeboats into their cargo bays and de-orbited, carrying them down to Durrell.
There was an ice cream store that was open on Sundays fourteen blocks away from where we lived, and about ten days before the Klarri lifeboats came showering in from the sky, this kid and I had gone to that ice cream store, with me on my Sears, Roebuck three-speed and him on that boneshaker of his.
Half an hour after leaving the lifeboat station, Condy and Blix reached the old, red-brick fort, deserted, abandoned, and rimeincrusted, at the entrance of the Golden Gate.
Regularly Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, Blix and Condy came out to the lifeboat station.
Day she and Condy were to take their last walk, were to go out to the lifeboat station, and then on around the shore to the little amphitheatre of blackberry bushes--where they had promised always to write one another on the anniversary of their first visit--and then for the last time climb the hill, and go across the breezy downs to the city.
Harivarman had implied that he was trying to get the astrogation system of a Dardanian lifeboat working.
White-hulled cutters and black-hulled buoy tenders and lifeboats and bright orange Jayhawk and Pelican helicopters.
So the decision was made to have nuclear batteries on the mother ship alone, and use small temporary batteries on the lifeboats.
The lifeboats can hold several tens of thousands of people in suspension, along with all the manufacturing cybernetics necessary to establish an advanced technological human society from scratch on a new world.
It seemed to those in the lifeboat that they were not going to be missed this time, and so they lowered away their sodden canvas, shipped tholepins, and got out their oars.
Four other belters orbited farther back, knowing they could do nothing but also knowing how Egan felt about the kid, ever since he pulled the twins out of a lifeboat more than twelve Earth-years ago.
No other lifeboats had been launched, from what the belters later determined in examining what little remained of the wreckage.
Adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale anti-venom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats.
There were also lifeboats along both sides of the ship, set so they blocked no views from the decks but could be stepped into by even the bulkiest of creatures.