English
Noun
lifeboats- Plural of lifeboat
User Contributed Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Lifeboat may refer to:
- Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape
- Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues (predominantly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland)
- Lifeboat (film), a 1944 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1), a television episode
- Lifeboat ethic, an ethic proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat
- Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Royal National Lifeboat Institution a charity whose aim is to save lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland