LIFE-SAVING AT SEA
ROCKET AND BREECHES BUOY DEMONSTRATION ON MARAMA The rocket gun and breeches buoy, which have saved the lives of many shipwrecked poopje when vessels have gone ashore in weather too rough to enable lifeboats to bo used, were demonstrated on the Union Company's passenger steamer Marama at the Central Wharf yesterday. Practice with the apparatus is held on the steamer every three months. By means of the gun, a light line •was shot a distance of about 150 yards from the vessel. One of the ship's lifeboats, which had been hovering out of the line of fire, quickly picked up the floating rocket from the surface of the water and took it ashore to the end of the Central Wharf. Heavier lines were drawn ashore by means of the original light line and made fast to a bollard. Ihe last rope carried a travelling block from which hung the breeches buoy, consisting of an "ordinary lifebuoy forming the waistband of a pair of heavy canvas "shorts." With one of the' seamen as passenger, the breeches buoy was successfully* tested and the demonstration was completed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 14
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