boat drill

noun

practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship

It was explained that great difficulty frequently exists in getting firemen to take part in a boat drill.

Boat drill, regulated according to the opportunities of the service, should always be held.

There had been no boat drill, and the lifeboat accommodation was hopelessly inadequate for more than eighty people now on board.

Dinner over, all troops are mustered to a boat drill that includes the lowering of the boats.

Why isn't all the spare energy in the ship bent to polishing up our boat-drill?

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