lifecar

plural lifecars

1. alternativeAlternative form of life car.

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

   1991, Mariners Weather Log

   2 more examples

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

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

   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.

   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