Lifeboat: Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson

A saboteur's bomb ripped through the hull of the seemingly indestructible galactic liner, leaving bare minutes for the alien crew and human cargo to evacuate the sip. Giles Steel Ashad, Adelman, is adrift in a tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two Albanareth crew, Only the aliens knew how to pilot the vessel, and they had lost the will to live...Giles must assume responsibility for erupting tempers, the dwindling food supply...and the saboteur whose ugly work has already begun...