Sentence examples for lifeboat off from inspiring English sources

"A singular disadvantage of the sea," Stephen Crane wrote in his 1897 story "The Open Boat," based on his experiences on a lifeboat off the coast of Florida, "lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important".

Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and killed three Somali pirates in a daring operation in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, ending a five-day standoff between United States naval forces and a small band of brigands in a covered orange lifeboat off the Horn of Africa.

There is also a patio that one might use to, say, scale onto a lifeboat off a jagged ice shard.

And as the clock winds down, after hauling ass down the stairs, he heaves himself into the subway car like it's the last lifeboat off the Titanic and just makes it, every damn time.

They loaded the ship's captain into a lifeboat, shoved off from the cargo ship and began negotiating for his release.

The four hijackers, apparently overrun by the ship's crew, then loaded the captain into a lifeboat, shoved off from the Alabama and began negotiating for his release.

All five lifeboats got off.

A person could walk in one of the lanes, but except for at the back of the ship, the humongous lifeboats closed off the view.

On Saturday David Baker, a windsurfer in his 60s who was rescued by lifeboats off the coast of West Mersea in Essex, died in hospital.

The Ocean Protector would meet it at sea, where they would haul the lifeboats off the ship and into the water so the Triton could begin the tow.

[ Captain Bindel, reached at the office of his Las Palmas shipping agent, said that he knew of no seizure and that the ship was "merely in port for engine repairs and would soon be leaving," The Associated Press reported from Las Palmas. ] The refugees were found in lifeboats off Newfoundland on Aug. 11.