Sentence examples for lifeboats through from inspiring English sources

Some versions of the disaster have contended that the crew was under orders to give priority aboard lifeboats to first- and second-class passengers, and even that doors were kept locked that would have given people in steerage faster access to the lifeboats through parts of the ship dedicated to higher-paying passengers.

The crew then had to sail and row the three ill-equipped lifeboats through the pack ice to Elephant Island, a trip which lasted five days.

Let the following titillating Titanic tidbits be your verbal lifeboat through the conversational icebergs of the social season's No. 1 topic.

After the sinking, the emaciated sailors on their lifeboats went through an ordeal of hunger and thirst, dying one by one, with those remaining left with horrible choices about how to stay alive.

From there, the challenge escalates as the Endurance is crushed and sunk, and the men are left to slog across great stretches of ice pack and row tiny open lifeboats for days through treacherous currents that wouldn't let them beach their craft once land was reached.

According to survivors, the ancestor, 21, guided other passengers from third-class steerage through to the lifeboats but was barred from taking a place.

The one constant is the wind: rattling the 19th-century lifeboat house, roaring through the marram grass.

Key works include The Lifeboat is Carried Through The Dunes (1883), The Crew Are Saved (1894) and The Drowned Man (1896).

When we saw Leo and Kate at the prow of the ship, when we remembered the awful final moments in the lifeboats, it was Horner's music that thrummed through our hearts and minds.

Or he could make his own version of Titanic, in which he sails past the sinking ship and calls out through a megaphone to people clinging to lifeboats: "I'm here to help.

During times of deepest anguish, when even the lifeboats are sinking, God has a way of breaking through in unanticipated ways.