Sentences with word «lifeboat»

Both escaped in lifeboats with their owners, Margaret Hays and Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild.

The result would have been enough lifeboats for all the passengers and crew.

Mrs. Carter and her children left on lifeboat 4; Mr. Carter left on a collapsible boat (C).

The British inquiry thoroughly covered every aspect of the disaster, underlining the fact that although the White Star Line had honored the letter of the law in the number of lifeboats placed on the Titanic, the number was nowhere near sufficient.

They are stuffed into a tiny lifeboat with hardly any visibility from the outside world and their patience lessens by the minute.

If someone asked you to balance a dinner plate on your hand; then placed a bunch of marbles that have their own individual take on the concept of gravity on the plate; then they asked you to kindly manage to balance the plate in just the right way to cause them to fall in to pockets on the side of the plate; you'd have a fair idea of what to expect with Lifeboat by Fuel Games.

Recent years have seen some major developments, with the introduction of RNLI lifeguards in 2001, and the first lifeboat station on an inland waterway, also in 2001.

Shackleton and his crew were forced into lifeboats to make an extraordinary and heroic escape across the Southern Ocean.

His side sees indie as a threat, so he can't be too supportive, even if, inwardly, he sees it as a possible lifeboat if Manhattan tradpub starts taking on too much water.

Q.: It is assumed in all this that triage and lifeboat ethics currently have the status of policy guidelines and recommendations; the proposals were discussed with a great deal of pessimism at the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome.

They include very large paintings of wild ponies on Exmoor, galloping polo ponies, the last horse - launched lifeboat being pulled into a boiling sea, heavy working horses pulling felled timber and hard - working farm horses trudging home at the end of the day.

Russell Blake: Your two books, Black Flagged and The Jakarta Pandemic, are selling like lifeboats on the Titanic these days.

The name was changed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1854, and cork lifejackets were first issued to crew members in the same year.

Did you ever hear the story of a fancy ship that ran into an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank as a result, killing more than half of the people on board because there were not enough lifeboats?

Complicating matters was that none of the passengers had yet practiced lifeboat drills, which were scheduled for the next morning during the first full day at sea.

Thirty nine people in one lifeboat adrift for many weeks waiting for rescue, some strong some not.

It seems there are some questions about her actions during the two weeks she spent in a small lifeboat on the Atlantic with 38 other survivors of the sinking of the Empress Alexander.

Lifeboat never feels stagy, which is one of the film's greatest successes.

An author lifeboat team is a band of authors who join together to cross-promote their work.

They spent one week at the Historic Lifeboat Station working with staff from Point Reyes National Seashore and the National Park Service, conducting research on ecological projects, including plant species distribution, hydrology profiling, and fish monitoring.

From a repurposed lifeboat turned solar - powered music studio to a high - tech fully professional studio powered by the sun, this isn't the first time we've seen musicians stepping up for clean energy.

That year Gold formed Lifeboat Associates in the basement of his partner's apartment house (which he called «the dungeon») and set out to rectify the situation by distributing nonproprietary software.

The project's finds include footprints of humans and animals, like some found near Liverpool from an extinct species of huge cow called an auroch; Britain's first lifeboat station, built in Formby probably in 1771, and a 40 - metre - deep Bronze - Age shaft.

She describes the scene as their overcrowded lifeboat attempts to get away from the floundering ocean liner before it is dragged into the vortex the sinking ship will create, under the direction of the only seaman aboard, Mr. Hardie.

Well, I've noticed no one has accepted the challenge of my «lifeboat problem».

There's even some commentary about why they're on the sidelines, when Lifeboat still seems a lot more ambitious in its progressive presentation of reality than it turns out to be.

As the tale of Titanic passed from generation to generation, the stories of her class structure and the inevitable loss of life on a ship with too few lifeboats, were well told.

They're just incompetent, clinging to cliffnotes of the last decade like little lifeboats in a sea that they can't quite comprehend.

MPs have shot down a Lords amendment designed to offer victims of collapsed pensions a «lifeboat fund».

However, given how unstable and debt - ridden fiat currencies are at the moment, it is more likely that digital currencies will serve as emergency lifeboats as the Titanic of government currencies goes down — in other words, far from orderly, very messy, but ultimately life - saving.

When visiting Hunstanton, Lifeboat Inn is a great choice to consider.

The best features are the 2 massive propellers (one at 28m and the other at 38m), lifeboats still intact and 135 articulated lorries still chained to the ship!

There are lifeboats available!!

Before the MS Explorer sank off the coast of Antarctica seven years ago, passengers fled the ship in inflatable lifeboats in a scene reminiscent of the Titanic disaster.

The noise of the steam escaping from the vents on the deck is so loud that the man in charge of directing lifeboat operations has to use his hands to give directions.

And so it is that the coxswain of motor lifeboat CG - 36500, Bernie Webber (Chris Pine, providing solid anchorage), leads a crew of three (Ben Foster's Seaman Richard Livesey, Kyle Gallner's Engineman Third Class Andy Fitzgerald, and John Magaro's Seaman Ervin Maske) to find the SS Pendleton and bring home alive its 33 mates.

It's rich in fishing heritage and its RNLI lifeboat service is at the heart of the town.

The courage of Massey and his first mate Humphrey Bogart serves as an inspiration to the survivors, who manage to navigate their tiny lifeboat to America, where they are lauded as heroes.

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