Fringian Lifeboat

A Lifeboat is a type of smallcraft found operating within the Distant Fringe region.

• Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

Within the Distant Fringe, a lifeboat is usually identified as a general purpose utility smallcraft. Lifeboats most commonly serve as emergency subcraft on a larger parent vessel and are typically housed within a specialized easy to access hangar.

• While aboard a parent vessel and not active as flight crew, the lifeboat's personnel may be assigned alternate duties such as service crew.

Lifeboats – usually rebranded as passenger transports – may also be encountered operating as in-system transports, ferrying personnel between outposts and settlements located on different worlds within a system.

Selected Example Ships

Smallcraft - Lifeboat:

• Type U class Auxiliary
  • Caroline class Heavy Pinnace
  • Constance class Launch
  • Deliverance class Lifeboat
  • Marrel Veckor class Lifeboat

History & Background (Dossier)

The convention of declaring a smallcraft a lifeboat is common practice. In reality there is no discernible difference between a lifeboat and any other smallcraft fitted out for short- to medium-duration passenger transportation.

Image Repository

A variety of smallcraft commonly encountered within the Distant Fringe region.

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science