In grim silence, they set to work following the skipper's instructions, fastening their lifebelts around their waists, still clinging to the ship that was now in such desperate plight that the forward part was almost entirely under water.
Crouch had taken every precaution that was possible; practically without exception the lifebuoys and cork lifebelts had been lashed underneath the raft, the better to serve their purpose.
A number of passengers spent last night on deck in their chairs with lifebelts beside them in case of danger.
Were any special orders given that morning that lifebelts be put on?
The crew in this case being near shore, and having on cork lifebelts, were rescued, but three gentlemen who had gone off in her without lifebelts were drowned.
Lifebelts were ordered to be put on, and as I tied Heasy's the aforementioned Sister turned to me and said: "You ought to tie that tighter; it will come undone very easily in the waves!
A sailor went round with a megaphone, shouting, "All lifebelts on," and we were under way.
I was forward again at the time getting some lifebeltsfrom the fore-hatch.
The immediate result was fun combined with safety; the secondary result was placards over the ship and the dock, forbidding the use of the ship's lifebelts by the crew.
Then, one night, some of the men took as many passengers' lifebelts and went in.
Two or three of the poor fellows were seen clinging to the keel for twenty minutes, by which time they became exhausted, were washed off, and, having no lifebelts on, perished.
It may be added that the men who work the boats of the Institution are not allowed to go off without their cork lifebelts on.
Lifebelts would keep the survivors afloat for hours; but the cold water was what stopped the cries.
None of us dared undress thoroughly before turning in--when we did turn in, lifebelts were always kept handy, and we had to be ready for any emergency at any moment.
Some of those bush boys could not swim, and to all of them boats and lifebelts were unfamiliar articles.
Such an attempt was useless in the terrific sea that was running, but they all had lifebelts on, and were determined to overcome the danger.
Utterly regardless of their rough experience in the early morning, the crew again donned their lifebelts and manned the lifeboat.
The boathouse bell was rung, there was a fierce rush of men for the cork lifebeltshanging round the walls, and ten minutes later the lifeboat Mary Somerville was manned and launched.
Those who were most active got on the cork lifebeltsand leaped in; those who were less active, or at a greater distance when the signal sounded, had to remain behind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifebelts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
