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boat drill

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noun

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

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"You had better listen to this boat drill," Captain Otto Thoresen cautioned passengers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, at fire and boat drill, Tomas Montanez was missed.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the first day at sea, Captain Mathios Zarbis, 53, ordered the only boat drill held during the cruise.

From Time Magazine Archive

He carried a rubber ball that he wouldn’t be parted with even for boat drill.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The very next day after our first exhaustive boat drill, a school of "Black Fish" was reported from aloft, with great glee the officers prepared for what they considered a rattling day's fun.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.

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