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boat drill

British

noun

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

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boat drill

"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

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

From Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' by Trayes, Frederic George

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