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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.

The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918).

who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a liferaft.

co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas.

rescue equipment included two lifeboats each with capacity of 41 people, a liferaft on the port side with capacity of 25 people and two life rafts on starboard.

The crew of ten successfully took to a small inflatable liferaft, but it was not until after 11 days and the deaths of three seamen that.

object like a ship navigating through a waterway or a passive object like a liferaft, drifting debris, or a person in the water (PIW) (Figure 3).

In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft.

was dramatically rescued by the Australian Navy who first dropped him liferaft from an aircraft before sending in a helicopter to rescue him deep into.

the blast so her crew abandoned ship with her two starboard boats and a liferaft.

The crew abandoned ship into two liferafts—the ship's list prevented the launch of lifeboats—and 19 of the 32 crew.

rescued by Pete Goss after his boat sank in the Indian Ocean and he was in liferaft dropped by an Australian Air Force plane.

It was then discovered that a liferaft found on 13 January by another vessel had come from the St Romanus.

entire crew of thirteen were forced to use a ten-person inflatable liferaft.

The liferaft was damaged during the launching, which meant that waves were able.

He then went on to retrieve our liferaft, in the extremely difficult circumstances, which at the very least contributed.

Refusing to climb aboard a liferaft, Ide assisted in the rescue of many of his fellow prisoners-of-war.