Lifeboats smashed as soon as put overboard," came back the answer.
Several of the lifeboats had been wrecked by big seas, and the remainder had been stove in when the crew attempted to lower them down the side.
He ordered the ship's lifeboats manned and lowered.
Meanwhile the little lifeboatsof the Yucatan were helping the crews of the British cruiser pick up the survivors.
The crew were summoned to their stations; the lifeboats and liferafts were swiftly provisioned and furnished with water as well as could be done.
Our ships carry lifeboatssufficient now; they are compelled to by law.
Lifeboats have been given by many benevolent individuals--some as thank-offerings from the friends of those whose lives have been saved, and others in memory of those who are unhappily no more.
I am happy also to be able to say that lifeboats do not only exist upon our coast, but that our great example in this matter has been imitated by many foreign maritime countries, and they have chosen our institution as the model for their own.
Then the captain and his crew, together with the Chinese cook, manned the lifeboats and pulled away, to the amazement of the Chinese pirates, who seemed immensely pleased that they had captured the ship without a struggle.
The captain ordered two lifeboats immediately to be filled with water and provisions and lowered, while he went below decks and lighted a train to the cargo of gunpowder and fireworks.
Again, the lifeboats often go under sail and oar many miles from their station to aid vessels in distress.
His eyes rested speculatively on the three lifeboats still hanging above the starboard rail.
One by one, in regular, systematic order, the lifeboats came alongside.
He agrees to give a hundred thousand dollars to any boat's crew that will take one of these lifeboats and make port somewhere.
The dull, hapless occupants of the lifeboats watched with fascinated eyes the first of the giant rockets that whizzed and roared its way up from the deck of the ship, an endless arrow of fire piercing the night.
Passengers, on a stroll, note unusual movement about the boat-deck, where the hands are swinging out lifeboats and clearing the gear.
Her stern was shattered by shell, the lifeboats blown away; the apprentice at the wheel stood to his job with blood running in his eyes.
A very close observer, viewing the apparatus end-on, might assume that a couple of collapsible lifeboats were being carried aboard over the engine-room.
He had no intention of approaching either lifeboats or the ship until entirely satisfied that he was not dealing with one of the decoy vessels which he so greatly feared.
This "panic party" was particularly panicky; one of the lifeboats was let go with a run, one fall at a time, thus dumping its occupants into the sea.
That this manoeuvre involved great danger to the men in the lifeboats was a matter of no consideration in the desperate enterprise in which they were engaged.
Another message would tell of a vessel that was being shelled; another would tell of a ship that was sinking; while other messages would give the location of lifeboats which were filled with survivors and ask for speedy help.
It ceased shelling, approached the lifeboats filled with survivors, and ordered them to take a party of Germans to the ship.
The two sections of steamers and of lifeboats were slung upon long poles of fir from Trieste, arranged between two camels in the manner of shafts.
Captain Rostron said that the Carpathia had twenty lifeboats of her own, in accordance with the British regulations.
No instructions came from the Captain or officers or crew; in fact, we never saw any of the ship's officers until long after all the lifeboats were afloat on the sea.
The falls of the lifeboats were all renewed, and on October 5th we had places assigned to us in the lifeboats, and rules and regulations were drawn up for the "detained enemy subjects" on board the Hitachi.
There were now four lifeboats in the water at some distance from each other.
We were, however, not inconvenienced in any way by the swell, and the lifeboats shipped no water.
For the lifeboats on the Wolf could not possibly have accommodated more than 350 souls, and it is certain no prisoners would have been among this number.
He said that he did it for the sake of the women and children on board; as the sea was rough, their lives would have been in danger if they had been put in the lifeboats when the ship was bombed.
The women took the matter as coolly as if being shelled and leaving a ship in lifeboats were nothing much out of the ordinary.
The entire crew is now in the four lifeboats ready to leave.
Similarly occupied were the lifeboats of Deal, Walmer, and other places along the coast.
Queeker, aghast; "have you never heard of the noble fellows who man the lifeboats all round the coasts of this great country, and save hundreds of lives every year?
Similarly there is no fixed relation between the tonnage of vessels and the deck space available for the carrying of lifeboats under davits.
Covers were supplied for the lifeboats and cutters, and a sea anchor for each boat.
There were seven lifeboats on each side, 30 feet long, 9 feet wide.
The Engelhardt collapsible lifeboats were stowed abreast of the cutters, one on each side of the ship, and the remaining two on top of the officers' house, immediately abaft the navigating bridge.
The lifeboats were stowed on hinged wood chocks on the boat deck, by groups of three at the forward and four at the after ends.
That the rules should be amended so as to admit of decked lifeboats of an approved type being stowed on top of one another or under an open lifeboat, subject to suitable arrangements being made for launching promptly the boats so stowed.
The davit blocks were treble for the lifeboats and double for the cutters.
The buoyancy tanks in the lifeboats were of 18 ounce copper, and of capacity to meet the board of trade requirements.
That any increase in the number of lifeboats to be carried can probably be best effected by providing for the launching of further boats from the existing davits.
We did this turn three times, so that the men soon knew the direct road from their berths to the lifeboats and were able to get into position in ten minutes, which is considered very good.
We had no sooner got settled on board than I asked the Captain to give us a plan of his lifeboat stations so that the men could assemble if necessary, without any confusion, at their posts at the lifeboats in the shortest possible time.
It’s likely there’d be several lifeboats adrift, and if one of them hung around in this vicinity, there may be more.
For when I intervened between them and the lifeboats they were about to seize I promised them that I would see every one of them in safety before attempting to save myself.
The sailors on board the lifeboats laid themselves vigorously to their oars, and rowed them swiftly away from the whirling eddy around the settling wreck.
Two of the lifeboatshad been forcibly reft away from the side of the ship by the violence of the shock and carried off by the sea.
Steamships are leaving port crowded with lifeboats of every size and shape.
The pathetic reluctance of her passengers to leave the Titanic for the lifeboats was justified, surely, by the seeming security of the one and frailty of the other.
We were in two lifeboats and the captain's dinghy.
The two sprang to the rescue of the babies and small children, carrying two of the little ones in their arms at a time and placing them carefully in the lifeboats with their mothers.
They remained at their posts until the last man had been taken off, and some of them took off articles of their clothing and threw them into the lifeboats for the benefit of those who were in need of warm clothing.
After searching us, the German sailors climbed into our lifeboats and threw out the oars, gratings, thole-pins, and baling tins.
Automatic derricks in the side blisters to hoist the lifeboats if, as, and when.
One of the lifeboats cracked up; we used the other for about a year.
They were lifeboatsfull of men signaling wildly for help.
All lifeboats are well equipped--provided with ten gallon barrels of water, and with tins of bacon and crackers.
We pulled for the nearest land, and all our twenty-five men got ashore safe, although both lifeboats were badly smashed up in the surf as we were beaching them.
Turning his attention to the lifeboats of the Russian ship which he had just torpedoed, the captain of the submarine promised to tow them to the French coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifeboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
