What are the differences between survival craft,rescue boat , lifeboat and liferaft?

Question

What are the differences between survival craft,rescue boat , lifeboat and liferaft?

Answer 1

price, colour and marketing strategy.

on some rare cases, presuming that the manufacturer is western,  maybe, just maybe a slight differences in quality and the thickness of materials.

Answer 2

Life-rafts and lifeboats are examples of survival craft.These are used in case your primary vessel is so UN-seaworthy that you must abandon it. Rescue boats are used to pick up, or retrieve. Rescue if you will, people who are in survival craft.

Answer 3

Life rafts usually do not have a solid bottom, it is usually made of rope or netting.

Life boats are actually boats, some are totally enclosed with a pump & piping to spray water on to the exposed areas above the waters surface in case of a fire at sea. The enclosure also protects the survivors from the elements.

Answer 4

life raft: emergency raft that deploys wen there r no life boats/the lifeboats did not/can't b launched

lifeboat: the original life rafts installed on the ship

rescue boat: used by the coast guard 2 rescue people at sea

survival craft; kinda like a life raft too.

Answer 5

what are you a dumbass? If they rescue you ,are you gonna ask? I don't think so.......