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This represents a lifeboat on an American or European passenger-carrying vessel.

50 person lifeboat

28' length, 8' beam, 3' depth

62.5 gallons of fresh water divided among four tanks

75 cubic feet of air among four bouyancy tanks (enough to roughly keep the boat afloat even when awash)

tiller, rudder, lifeline, rowlocks

Equipment:

• mast, sail, rigging, 30 fathoms manila line
• ditty bag with sailmaker's tools and supplies
• 10 oars, 8' length
• 2 painters, 15 fathoms each
• boat compass
• chart (usually very general)
• sea anchor
• 1 gallon can of storm oil, can be attached to sea anchor
• 2 gallon iron bucket (mostly for bailing)
• boathook 8' long, with yellow signal flag
• 2 life preservers, kapok filled; each with whistle and jackknife
• canvas bag with 25 tapered softwood plugs, 3" long and 3/4" dia at top
• hatchet (also hammer for plugs)
• kerosene lamp, can be fitted to masthead
• 2 lamp wicks
• 1 gallon kerosene
• 2 boxes friction matches
• flashlight, spare bulb, 3 spare flashlight batteries
• Very pistol with 10 red signal flares
• 6 blankets
• first-aid kit, in very watertight box:
  • 10 ammonia inhalants
  • bottle of 60 aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine tablets
  • 7 compress bandages, 4" square with long tails for tying
  • 7 gauze roller bandages, 2" wide by 72" long
  • 2 triangular bandages, 40" by 40" by 56"
  • 2 adhesive compress bandages, 1" square
  • 1 tourniquet 36" long with padded buckle
  • blunt scissors, blunt forceps (more like a pair of tweezers), and 12 safety pins
  • 3 eye dressing sets (eye dressing, plaster, tube of opthalmic ointment)
  • 1 bottle of yellow mercuric oxide opthalmic ointment 1%
  • 1 bottle boric acid ointment (for burns)
  • 1 bottle 20 phenobarbital tablets
  • bottle of 20 benzedrine sulfate tablets
  • 1 bottle mild tincure of iodine
  • 6 packets sulfanilamide crystalline powder [only from 1935 for Germans, 1936 onwards for everyone else]
  • 1 bottle 24 sulfadiazine tablets [only from 1935 for Germans, 1936 onwards for everyone else]
• 175 lbs of ship's "hard tack" biscuit, in sealed metal boxes
• 2 "well-bucket" water cups (to draw water from the tanks)
• 1 drinking cup