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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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...

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...

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...

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

rescue the seven men aboard Green Ranger, until they were taken off by Breeches buoy from the shore. In 1966, Agincourt was reduced to Operational Reserve...

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...

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...

Bogan, RADM Davison transferred his flag to the destroyer Miller by breeches buoy and suggested abandoning ship, but Gehres refused to scuttle the Franklin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and music videos. In Richard Martin Stern's novel The Tower (1973), a breeches buoy line shot from a helicopter is used to link the World Trade Center's...

avalanche Avalanche transceiver – Emergency locator rescue radio beacon Breeches buoy – Rescue device for transport along a taut rope Carley float – Liferaft...

with a rocket cart and an adjacent cannon, for the deployment of a breeches buoy. This led to the building being known as Rocket House. From the 1920s...