Lifeboat
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Lifeboat may refer to:
- Lifeboat (shipboard)Lifeboat (shipboard)A lifeboat is a small, rigid or inflatable watercraft carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard ship. In the military, a lifeboat may be referred to as a whaleboat, dinghy, or gig. The ship's tenders of cruise ships often double as lifeboats. Recreational sailors sometimes...
, a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape - Lifeboat (rescue)Lifeboat (rescue)A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crewmen and passengers. It can be hand pulled, sail powered or powered by an engine...
, a boat designed for sea rescues - Airborne lifeboatAirborne lifeboatAirborne lifeboats were powered lifeboats that were made to be dropped by fixed-wing aircraft into water to aid in air-sea rescue operations. An airborne lifeboat was to be carried by a heavy bomber specially modified to handle the external load of the lifeboat...
, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen - Lifeboat (film)Lifeboat (film)Lifeboat is an American war film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a lifeboat.The film is...
, a 1944 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock - "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1)Stargate SG-1 (season 7)Season seven of Stargate SG-1, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on June 13, 2003 on Sci Fi. The seventh season concluded after 22 episodes on March 9, 2004 on British Sky One, which overtook the Sci-Fi Channel in mid-season. The series was developed by Brad Wright and Jonathan...
, television episode from season 7 - Lifeboat ethicsLifeboat ethicsLifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1974.Hardin's metaphor describes a lifeboat bearing 50 people, with room for ten more. The lifeboat is in an ocean surrounded by a hundred swimmers...
, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat - Lifeboat sketchLifeboat sketchMonty Python's Lifeboat sketch appeared on Monty Python's Flying Circus in Episode 26. It was also performed on the album, Another Monty Python Record, retitled Still No Sign Of Land. The sketch was inspired by the famous 1884 English criminal law case of The Queen v...
, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus - Royal National Lifeboat InstitutionRoyal National Lifeboat InstitutionThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways....
(RNLI), a lifeboat-providing charity in the UK and Ireland - International Lifeboat FederationInternational Lifeboat FederationThe is a global organisation that unites and represents the world's operational marine rescue services, whether civilian or military - full-time or voluntary - large or small...
(ILF), global organisation that unites and represents the world's operational marine rescue services - Lifeboat, a 1972 album by the Sutherland BrothersSutherland BrothersThe Sutherland Brothers originally performed as a folk / rock duo in the field of British music in the early 1970s, and then from 1973 to 1978 joined with rock band Quiver to record and tour as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver...
- Lifeboat (game), a negotiation card game published by Gorilla Games in 2002
- Lifeboat, a 2008 album by Jimmy HerringJimmy HerringJimmy Herring is an American guitarist who is currently the lead guitarist in the band Widespread Panic. Herring is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and Jazz is Dead...
- "Lifeboats", a song on Snow Patrol's 2008 album, A Hundred Million SunsA Hundred Million SunsA Hundred Million Suns is the fifth album by alternative rock band Snow Patrol. The album was written by Snow Patrol and was produced by long time producer Jacknife Lee who has previously produced albums for Bloc Party, R.E.M., and U2. The songs were recorded through the summer of 2008 in Hansa...