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The lowering of Lifeboat 2, the second of the two cutters, was overseen by Smith, Wilde and Fourth Officer Boxhall at about 1:45 A.M. [31] [77] When Wilde moved from Lifeboat 12 to Lifeboat 2 to get it ready for loading, he found that it was already filled with a large group of male passengers and crewmen. He ordered them out at gunpoint ...
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A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts are also used. In the military, a lifeboat may double as a whaleboat, dinghy, or gig.
Davit systems are most often used to lower an emergency lifeboat to the embarkation level to be boarded. The lifeboat davit has falls (now made of wire, historically of manila rope) that are used to lower the lifeboat into the water. [3] Davits can also be used as man-overboard safety devices to retrieve personnel from the water.
Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912 . With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night.
RNLB Ruby and Arthur Reed II (ON 1097) [1] was a Tyne-class lifeboat stationed at Cromer in the English county of Norfolk [2] from 16 December 1985 [3] and was the No 1 lifeboat between various relief’s [4] until she was replaced after 21 years service by the Tamar-class RNLB Lester (ON 1287) in December 2007.
The design enabled the engine to continue to run even if the engine room became flooded. During the lifeboat's sea trials the engine was found to give the lifeboat a top speed of 7.3 Knots and fuel consumption gave the boat a radius of fifty nautical miles with a fuel consumption of 3.5 gallons used each hour of operation. [3]
The Waveney-class lifeboat was the first class of lifeboats operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) capable of operating at speeds in excess of 10 knots (12 mph). [1] Based on an American design, 22 saw operational service between 1964 and 1999 at the RNLI's stations around the coast of the United Kingdom and Ireland .