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The puffers developed from the gabbart, small single masted sailing barges, which took most of the coasting trade.The original puffer was the Thomas, an iron canal boat of 1856, less than 66 ft (20 m) long to fit in the Forth and Clyde Canal locks, powered by a simple steam engine without a condenser, since as it drew fresh water from the canal there was no need to economise on water use.
Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck.It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee.