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  2. Davit - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Lifeboat (shipboard) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Maritime Safety and Rescue Society - Wikipedia

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    (July 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy ...

  5. Tirukkural translations into Urdu - Wikipedia

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    The first Urdu translation of the Kural text was by Hazrat Suhrawardy, a professor of Urdu Department of Jamal Mohammad College, Tiruchirappalli. [1] It was published by Sahitya Academy in 1965, with a reprint in 1994. The translation is in prose and is not a direct translation from Tamil but based on English translations of the original.

  6. Marine evacuation system - Wikipedia

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    The MES consists of five components. Controls – used to initiate the device in an emergency situation. [9]Stowage box – contains essentials for the evacuation, including the chute and the fixed appliances, such as seats, rails, etc. [10] Composed of marine grade aluminum along with inflation cylinders, usually kept on the deck taking as little as 4 m 2 of storage space.

  7. Baralong incidents - Wikipedia

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    The statements said that five survivors from U-27 managed to board Nicosian, while the rest were shot and killed on Herbert's orders while clinging to the merchant vessel's lifeboat falls. It was further stated that when Herbert ordered his Marines to board Nicosian , he gave the order "take no prisoners".

  8. Lifeboat (rescue) - Wikipedia

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    A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers. It can be hand pulled, sail ...

  9. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit