Lifeboat may refer to:

Rescue vessels

Lifeboat (shipboard) A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts (raft, liferafts) are also used. In t ...

, a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape *

Lifeboat (rescue) A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers. It can be hand pulled, sail powered or powered by an engine. Lifeboats may be rigid, Inflatable boat, inflat ...

, a boat designed for sea rescues * Airborne lifeboat, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen

Art and entertainment

* ''Lifeboat'' (1944 film), a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Lifeboat'' (2018 film), a documentary * "Lifeboat" (''Stargate SG-1''), a 2003 television episode * "Lifeboats" (''Succession''), a 2018 television episode * Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' * ''Lifeboat'' (album), a 2008 album by Jimmy Herring * ''Lifeboat'', a 1972 album by the

Sutherland Brothers The Sutherland Brothers (Gavin and Iain Sutherland) were a Scottish folk and soft rock duo. From 1973 to 1978, they performed with rock band Quiver, and recorded and toured as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. Under this combined moniker, the gr ...

* "Lifeboats", a song on Snow Patrol's 2008 album, ''

A Hundred Million Suns ''A Hundred Million Suns'' is the fifth studio album by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released through Fiction Records and Geffen Records on 24 October 2008 in Ireland, 25 October in Australia, 27 October in the Uni ...

'' * "Lifeboat", a song from '' Heathers: The Musical''

Other uses

* ''Lifeboat'', journal of the

Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat (rescue), lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on s ...

* Lifeboat ethics, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat * Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s * Lifeboat Distribution, an international software distributor * Lifeboat Foundation, an existential risk reduction organization {{disambig