lifecar

English

Noun

lifecar (plural lifecars)

1. Alternative form of life car
   • 1991, Mariners Weather Log:

     Survivors then came ashore in either the lifecar or the breeches buoy.

   • 2005, Frederick Stonehouse, Women and the Lakes II: More Untold Great Lakes Maritime Tales:

     It was a lifecar like this one that brought the survivors, except Lydia Dale, safely ashore.

   • 2015, Captain Robert F. Bennett, Susan Leigh Bennett, Commander Timothy R. Dring, The Deadly Shipwrecks of the Powhattan & New Era on the Jersey Shore, →ISBN:

     On October 22, 1853, volunteer rescuers using the government lifecar saved all seven hundred persons on board the ship Western World near Spring Lake, a few miles north of Manasquan Inlet.

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• filacer