Usually means: Small boats for emergency evacuation.
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  1. lifeboats: Merriam-Webster
  2. lifeboats: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lifeboats: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lifeboats, lifeboat's, lifeboats: Wordnik
  5. lifeboats: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lifeboats: Wiktionary
  7. lifeboats: Dictionary.com
  8. lifeboats: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lifeboats: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Lifeboats: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Lifeboats: Encyclopedia

(Note: See lifeboat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lifeboat)

noun:  (nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
noun:  (science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
verb:  To rescue; to carry to safety
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