I'll explain this in laymans terms.
The various ships have locational damage. These locations are called zones. There are various different kinds of zones. Engineroom, keel, cargohold, etc. How tough or weak, how much boyancy, and what special effects when hit that these zones have, is defined by the zones.cfg file.
These zones are not inclusive to any one ship, but are shared by multiple ships. The life raft, is obviously sharing one such zone that is being used by other ships.
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