LIFE-SAVING AT SEA
ROCKET & BREECHES IIUOY The rockft gun and breeches buoy, which have saved) the lives of many shipwrecked people when vessels have gone ashore in weather too rough to enable lifeboats to be used, were demonstrated on the Union Company’s passenger steamer Marama at Auckland on Friday. 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 150yds. from the vessel. One of the ship’s lifeboats, 1 which had been hovering out of tiie line of fire, quickly picked up the floating locket 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 line and made fast to a bollard. The 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 12
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