life boats
Carpathia rescued the 712 survivors of Titanic.
There had to be enough life boats for everyone on the ship. They made a new better design for life jackets. They made more radio communication rules. They make sure everyone knows where the life boats are on the ship and how to get to them
boats
Originally, Titanic's designer,Alexander Carlisle, proposed 64 lifeboats which was reduced to 48, then 32, but only 16 were installed, enough for only 1,178 people if all boats were filled. Thomas Andrews insisted on the extra 4 collapsibles which saved more people, including Bruce Ismay who escaped in collapsible C!
There was a ship called the Olympic. She was the sister ship of the Titanic. She ran from 1911 to 1935.
It is a preperation for launching small boats from a ship. It may be lifeboats, invasion landing craft or the Captain gig. It is a warning to the ship's crew that small boats have been swung outboard and extra caution should be observed.
a small craft carried on a ship to provide a means of emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard the ship
The device for lowering life boats from the ship down to the water is called a "davit"
His ship was called the Golden Hind.
In their history, submarines were called by many names such as 'U-boats', 'eel boats', 'plunging boats', 'devil divers', and 'pig boats'. Technically, and by size, the submarine is a ship, but it has been called a boat since its earliest days, and the term is steeped in tradition. Submariners almost invariably call their ships 'boats".
Byblos boats
The front of a ship is the Bow. The rear of a ship is the Stern. This is the same for small boats as well.
Food, water, cloth, things to trade-to earn a living , maps, compasses and astrolabe , a crew to work the ship, life boats, extra rope and cloth for repairing sails, extra wood, somewhere to sleep, and extra clothes in case it gets cold.
It stands for steam ship.
It did not have enough life boats.
Because the ship has value, and they are literally an escort; or other reasons.
German military submarines were called U-boats, which is short for unterseeboot. This means just 'undersea boat.'