A breeches buoy is a rope-based rescue device used to extract people from wrecked vessels, or to transfer people from one place to another in situations...

trousers or tracksuit bottoms. Fencing breeches are also used as protective clothing for the legs. Breeches buoy, a device for moving a person from one...

English and French), and a Tail block designed to support the breeches buoy. Once the breeches buoy lines and the Crotch Pole (an A frame) assembled, the survivors...

and crashes, setting the roof ablaze. A Navy rescue team attaches a breeches buoy between the Promenade Room and the roof of the adjacent 102-story Peerless...

used either to direct a rescue-boat to the ship, or, later, to mount a Breeches buoy. The apparatus was invented by Captain George William Manby, inspired...

lifted, unties and the crew returns to attention.[citation needed] Breeches buoy Boatswain Deck department westmarine.com. "Do-it-Yourself: Climbing...

deck, and brought the rope to shore to people waiting on the beach. A breeches buoy was attached to the rope, and all those aboard the ship were able to...

stronger rope, which could be pulled taut and used to accommodate a breeches buoy that could be slid along a rope hawser. This possibility is discussed...

of seven were rescued by the Hartland Lifesaving Company, with their breeches buoy. The ship became a total loss, and her remains are still visible at...

to the barge, and both marooned men made it safely back to shore via breeches buoy, 17 hours after they first found themselves drifting towards the falls...

The Lizard lifeboat attended the ship, Her crew of 24 was rescued by breeches buoy from the cliffs above the wreck. Adolf Vinnen was the last large sailing...

ran aground near Chapel Rock, in Perran Bay. The crew escaped via the breeches buoy. The vessel was carrying coal and machinery from Cardiff to Brazil....

attention to the "Rocket" lifesaving apparatus, an early form of the Breeches buoy. In addition to this, Trengrouse was dismayed at the then common practice...

Rocket Crew, rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy; an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum...

command by visual signal; he and his remaining staff were transferred by breeches buoy to destroyer English and then to Enterprise, which became the flagship...

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Beach Apparatus Drill (firing rope lines via Lyle gun to establish a breeches buoy for rescues close to shore; the drill had to be completed within five...

Crew rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy. The breeches buoy had been in existence on the island since 1901, but had never...

US and two ROKA) and wounding the remaining two soldiers. Operation Breeches Buoy On December 23, 1968, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher and his 81 crewmen from...

line to the vessel, and bring off most of the surviving crew with a breeches-buoy. The last surviving crew member was too numb with cold, and required...

rescued 21 persons by surfboat, and extracted an additional 13 people by breeches buoy. The latter would be deployed when the sea was too rough for the surfboat...

Majesty's Coastguard and ordered that "life-saving apparatus" (presumably a Breeches buoy) be taken to Holm Head. A party carrying the apparatus left the barracks...

Sophia (possibly using a Lyle gun), and then evacuate the passengers by breeches buoy. This would have been extremely hazardous and it would have been unlikely...

Rocket Crew, rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy; an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum...

Convention Hall. Kontajones and Hodge used the ropes to rig together a breeches buoy, facilitating passage for firemen, inspectors, local officials, and...

mortars, and so invented the Manby Mortar, (later to be used with the breeches buoy), that fired a thin rope from shore into the rigging of a ship in distress...

Guard Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station; many were brought to shore by breeches buoy. Storm surf pushed H-3 high up on a sandy beach, surrounded by quicksand...

the roof of the Toronto Power House and shot a rope to the scow. A breeches buoy was then sent out but became tangled and snarled. Red Hill Sr. volunteered...

Henry Trengrouse to invent the rocket-fired line, later to become the Breeches buoy. The transport ship Dispatch ran aground on the Manacles in 1809 on...

stations were equipped with surfboat, apparatus cart, Lyle gun, and breeches buoy. The stations located in the Virginia Beach area were Cape Henry, Seatack...