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Meanings of lifeboat in English

Russian
шлюпка
Portuguese
baleeira
Spanish
lanza de salvataje
Catalan
bot salvavides
Wikidata

Boat used primarily as an emergency means of leaving a larger boat or ship in case of emergency scene.

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        шлюпка
        Russian
        спасательное судно
        Spanish
        bote salvavida
        Wikidata

        Boat rescue craft designed to attend a vessel in distress.

              Related terms
              спасательное судно
              Usage of lifeboat in English
              1
              Seeing the lifeboat there, rising and falling in the waves, Clara asked:
              Tales from Bohemia
              2
              It was a strange lifeboat, but then this was a strange sea.
              Complete Books of Blood
              3
              The lifeboat got entangled in the wreck and could not get clear.
              The Lifeboat
              4
              It was the hand of Cregeen, the owner of the old lifeboat.
              The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
              5
              A tail, gaunt figure loomed up in the bow of the lifeboat.
              The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet
              6
              The lifeboat was a sturdy cylinder ten metres long and four wide.
              The Reality Dysfunction
              7
              Lionel Lukin, a coach-builder in London, was the inventor of the lifeboat.
              The Lifeboat
              8
              The lifeboat was still ahead of us at least a hundred yards.
              First among sequels
              9
              Even the noble lifeboat would have been useless in such a place.
              The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double R...
              10
              The lifeboat station at Blackpool has been celebrating 150 years of rescues.
              BBC
              11
              But Tunis knew it was not the lifeboat from the distant station.
              Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
              12
              In the case of Landon Donovan, it was more of a lifeboat.
              The Guardian
              13
              The services of the lifeboat had been techniques outside of his experience.
              The Time Traders
              14
              The scene was laid around the lifeboat of either Deal or Walmer.
              Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
              15
              Powerboats now constitute the largest single casualty category for voluntary lifeboat crews.
              The Irish Times
              16
              They helped to man the lifeboat in their neighbourhood when occasion required.
              The Lifeboat
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              Ireland
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common
              United States of America
              Rare