Clatsop Community College has acquired an enclosed motor lifeboat, donated by the U.S. Maritime Administration from the M/V Cape Horn at Vigor Shipyard in Portland. The donation, received by the ...

Palfinger Marine ’s scope of delivery consists of six large, totally enclosed lifeboats with accompanying davits. Each lifeboat has a capacity of 150 persons in standard SOLAS mode.

As for lifeboats, several totally enclosed lifeboats—better known as TEMPSC's, for Totally Enclosed Motor Propulsed Survival Craft—were designed and built as early as the first decade of this ...

Lifeboat manufacturer Norsafe has developed a new partially enclosed lifeboat (PELB) for passenger vessels: the SOLAS compliant Minima 88, a compact 8.8m long boat with a width of 4.25m for 150 ...

According to the Devaney, the more modern enclosed lifeboats are more survivable but regulations allowed El Faro to keep the open design.

Speaking more broadly on the style of lifeboat El Faro had, Devaney says the open design, conventional davit launch is not as survivable as more modern, enclosed lifeboats or freefall launch life ...

One model of self-propelled, enclosed lifeboats new ships are currently required to carry.

Tio Devaney of Harding Lifeboat Services told federal investigators probing the ship sinking he was not aware of a crew surviving a hurricane in a lifeboat or life raft, enclosed or not.

It happened about 70 miles east of Chincoteague. According to the Coast Guard, two engineers were reported working on an enclosed lifeboat when it released and they both went with it.

Searing heat baked the lifeboat deck. Crew members, certain they were about to be cooked alive, scrambled into enclosed lifeboats for shelter, only to find them like smoke-filled ovens.