When I heard the first words I thought I should faint (imitating): "Been out in the lifeboat often?
Then at last on the poor doomed lifeboat a wave broke mountains high!
And now we could just make out the lifeboat lay out for a bit, and then let go her kedge and drop down towards the ship, as seemed at times to be completely buried under water.
The lifeboat was found to be nearly perfect, but too heavy for launching on our flat beaches with light crews: she weighed four thousand pounds.
It is the beautiful and touching custom, too, for mourners to offer a memorial lifeboat to the memory of their dead, instead of a painted window or a showy monument.
A modification of his boat is now used by the National Lifeboat Institution, to which the entire care of the English life-saving service is committed.
But if the sea be too heavy for the lifeboat to live in it?
Two years ago the service imported a lifeboat and rocket apparatus from England to test them here.
The crew of the lifeboat here are not allowed to touch a pound of freight or baggage on a wracked ship.
They recommended the erection of twenty-three life-saving stations complete, twenty-two lifeboat stations and five houses of refuge.
If the ship can be reached by a boat, this lifeboatis run into the surf.
We went to thelifeboat of the Anti-Kaiser, so securely lashed it would take minutes to free it, and the minutes now were more than hours at another time, and Howard knew it.
But it could be put off no longer, so I got into the little lifeboat and drew up alongside.
I did not need them so bad, and without this lifeboat I was sure of the rest.
I then returned to the wreck, taking the lifeboat in tow.
When I looked again for the Boches they were out on deck working frantically over the single lifeboat and were swinging it out on its davits.
Due to the artificial gravity of the lifeboat it seemed perfectly stationary to its occupants.
He could not cut that tractor beam and the utmost power of his drivers could not wrest the lifeboat from its tenacious clutch.
Out of the water and into the air the darting, dodging lifeboat flashed in safety; but in the air, supposedly free from menace, came disaster.
Orchestra instruments crashed to the floor and dancing couples fell and sprawled inertly while the tortured First Officer swung the door of the lifeboat open and dashed across the tiny room to the air-valves.
Furiously then Costigan set and reset his controls, launching his every driving force and his every weapon, but no beam could penetrate that red murk, and the lifeboat remained motionless in space.
Costigan exclaimed, as he shot the lifeboat upward at its maximum power.
The beams of the little lifeboat had boiled the waters of the ocean; those of the parent craft seemed literally to blast them out of existence.
But powerful as were the propellant forces of the lifeboat and fiercely though Costigan applied them, the denizens of the deep clamped a tractor beam upon the flying vessel before it had gained a mile of altitude.
The tractor beams snapped without warning, and so prodigious were the forces being exerted by the lifeboat that as it hurled itself away the three passengers were thrown violently to the floor, in spite of the powerful gravity controls.
Stay right here until I come back after you," he commanded, and the heavy door of the lifeboat clanged shut behind him as he leaped out into the promenade.
Watching the pyrometers which recorded the temperature of the outer shell, he drove the lifeboat ahead at the highest safe atmospheric speed while Bradley went to inspect the damage.
Deeper and deeper the lifeboat was dragged by its dreadful opponent, whose spiked teeth still tore savagely at the tough outer plating of the craft, until Costigan reluctantly threw in his power switches.
Rodebush likewise cut off his power, although somewhat apprehensively, and a Nevian lifeboat entered the main airlock of the Boise.
After reading the manual on lifeboat operation there was but one course open.
However, I did not know that a lifeboat had no acceleration compensators, and by the time the drive lever returned to neutral, I was far out in space and thoroughly lost.
There was a strong and a long pull altogether, and the lifeboat sprang into the sea as if it had been alive, with her crew seated and the oars out.
One by one they were got into the lifeboat with great difficulty.
Will you go with me, or stay to see the lifeboat start?
With his head bent slightly forward and his big body swaying with the rock and pitch of the lifeboat he kept his eyes fixed straight ahead.
Just then the lifeboatreached them and the rope cast by the captain's strong hand fell over their heads.
Then without hesitation the boys one by one dropped off into the water and half swimming and half dragging themselves by the rope, made their way from the wreck to the lifeboat into which they were pulled by strong hands.
Then, owing to something going wrong, thelifeboat jammed, and all the occupants were thrown into the water.
The men succeeded in cutting the ropes, however, and the lifeboat came to the surface, although bottom side up.
We pulled our boat over to the lifeboat from the Norwegian ship previously sunk, and a dozen hours later were picked up by a British steamer.
She seemed to turn a back somersault, according to the engineer, and because of the fact that the lifeboat was not clear it was dragged under.
The vessel immediately took a heavy list and the men were called to their lifeboat stations, but the list prevented the boats from being properly lowered, some of the upper-deck boats falling to the lower deck.
Scarcely had the lifeboat returned from saving the crew of the Lord Douglas, than another schooner, though lying with three anchors ahead, drove ashore at Carton.
On account of the hot fire to which they were still exposed, and the number of men already killed and wounded, he judged that he should not be justified in attempting to recover the lifeboat on that occasion.
The silver medal of the Lifeboat Institution was awarded to Lieutenant Boyle, and the second-service clasp was added to the medal received on a former occasion by Robert Parrott.
A foresail was borrowed, and the lifeboat again started on her mission of mercy.
For his heroic courage the National Lifeboat Institution awarded the gold medal to Rogers and a gratuity of 5 pounds.
For these and various other similar services he has received several medals and clasps from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
The people who had at first got possession of the lifeboat had afterwards abandoned her; but they now returned, and some forty or fifty got into her, intending to carry her off.
As soon as the position of the unfortunate vessel was discovered, the lifeboat was launched, and proceeded under sail to the spot.
Meta rotated the ship on its main axis, until Jason's lifeboat was directly below.
Behind him thelifeboat burbled and sank under the water.
Could he dare admit to these people that he had taken the lifeboat only to save his own life?
Like all lifeboat controls these were childishly simple, designed to be used by novices in an emergency.
There was fuel in the tanks--the delay in starting had only been part of the launching cycle, giving the lifeboat time to fall clear of the ship.
Solid-fuel launchers exploded and blasted the lifeboat clear of the parent ship.
Jason hurled himself through the lifeboat port with the nearest thing to a run he could manage under the doubled gravity.
Two seconds after that is pulled the lifeboat is shot free.
The model of a lifeboatbecame full, gorged to the slot.
IV Then came the day when he first heard someone saying discreetly behind him: "That's the lifeboat chap!
And Simeon debarked first, and there was a small blue and red model of a lifeboat in his hand, which he shook to a sound of coins.
Imagine a lifeboat being deterred by rain or by a breath of wind!
Even after he had made over a thousand pounds out of the Llandudno lifeboat in less than three months, she would not listen to a proposal for going into a slightly larger house, of which one room might serve as an office.
Hundreds of persons arrived fresh from the railway station every day, and they all appeared to be drawn to that lifeboat as to a magnet.
The new lifeboathad gone forth, amid cheers, about six o'clock to a schooner in distress near Rhos.
In daring to make over a hundred pounds a week out of a ramshackle old lifeboat that Cregeen had sold to him for thirty-five pounds, Denry was outraging Cregeen's moral code.
But the next morning he contracted to give away the lifeboat to a syndicate of boatmen, headed by John their leader, for L35.
It seemed to him that nothing could have stopped the visitors to Llandudno from fighting for places in his lifeboat and paying handsomely for the privilege.
Not infrequently passengers in the lifeboat were inconvenienced by displeasing and even distressing sensations, as Denry had once been inconvenienced.
One of the barges was almost overturned, and a lifeboat was driven against the cylinder and crushed to pieces.
It sounded cheerfully, and from the voices on board the tug and in the lifeboat and galley towing astern our Commandant gathered that the danger was over.
The lifeboat had been built to hold thirty-five people; more than forty had crowded into it, and it needed all prudence and care to keep it afloat in the heavy seas that were running.
It was unlike any pictures he had seen of lifeboat rescues, unlike anything he had ever imagined.
Moran refused to accompany him ashore and into theLifeboat Station.
Wilbur found the captain of the Lifeboat Station in the act of sitting down to a dinner of boiled beef and cabbage.
For a longtime Hoang studied the Lifeboat Station narrowly, while he made a great show of coiling a length of rope.
Now the wall by the lifeboathouse looks on the Cove.
The lifeboat went up in a cataclysmic roar and flare of bluish light that brought Vann, the Telethink operator on duty, out of his goldberg helmet with a prickly conviction of runaway range missiles.
The lifeboat crashed headlong in the mangroves fringing Dutchman’s Key, perhaps ten miles west of the Oversea Highway and less than two from the Telethink station.
The lifeboatwas immediately run out, and the men reached the wreck in time to save all the crew except one, who had been washed overboard.
There was no lifeboat at Cresswell then, and all the men of the village, except the old men who were past work, had gone northward, when the oncoming storm prevented their return.
But between them and Newbiggin, the nearest lifeboat station, the Lyne Burn runs into the sea, and spreads widely out over the sands; and the older people told Peggy she could never cross the burn in the dark.
All that we larnt was that a lifeboat had been stove alongside a vessel in Tintrenale Bay; and little wonder, tew, says I to my mates when I heerd it.
I had made an end, 'we heerd of that there Tintrenale lifeboat job when we was at Penzance.
He asked me many questions about my lifeboat experiences: particularly wished to know if I thought that my boat, which had been stove in endeavouring to rescue Miss Nielsen and her lamented father, would be replaced.
You will never take charge of a lifeboat again, I hope,' said Helga.
I had seen such faces once before, discolouring a huddle of white countenances of European seamen looking over the side of a ship, anchored in our bay, at the lifeboat I was in charge of for an hour or two of practice.
Not daring to move, Sandy and Jerry waited for what seemed hours until the slight swaying of the lifeboat stopped.
With a creak of blocks and tackle, the lifeboat was swiftly dropped to the water.
As Jerry joined Sandy, his added weight made the lifeboat lurch to one side, and brought a creak from the davits in which the boat was hung.
The lifeboat had been damaged, and couldn't be used.
In the transfer from the ship to the lifeboat Strathdene's wounds were wrenched and his sufferings renewed.
Perhaps in some high-flung lifeboat she would be crouching all drenched and stuttering with cold and dying with terror.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifeboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; buoy; canoe; cruiser; ferry; lifeboat; lifeguard; lifeline; parachute; rescuer; slide
