0 a boat used to rescue people from the ocean -- livbåt [ masculine ]
1 a boat for saving shipwrecked people. -- liv-/redningsbåt
They may be affected, however, in regard to the question of substitutes for davits and for lifeboats.
No matter how the ship is built she will have to carry lifeboats, and as many of the best type as she can carry.
There was a sufficiency of lifeboats and a sufficiency of liferafts.
I do not want to take the lifeboats or the lifebelts out of these steamers.
If they are absolutely in sight of land, or close to the land, they will always get assistance from the coast—from lifeboats or other means.
Besides that, these men are needed to man the lifeboats.
I was also asked about the lifeboats round the coast.
There has been a steady growth in the number of motor boats amongst the lifeboats around the coast.
