breeches buoy

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breech·es buoy

 (brĭch′ĭz, brē′chĭz)
n.
An apparatus used for rescues and transfers at sea, consisting of sturdy canvas breeches attached at the waist to a ring buoy that is suspended from a pulley running along a rope from ship to shore or from ship to ship.
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breeches buoy

n
(Nautical Terms) a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
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breech′es bu`oy


n.
a life preserver with a pantslike canvas seat for hauling a disabled person on or off a vessel.
[1875–80]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.breeches buoy - a life buoy in the form of a ring with short breeches for support; used to transfer people from a ship
life buoy, life ring, lifesaver, life belt - a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material
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Translations
boa di salvataggio

breeches buoy

n → Hosenboje f
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Our snapper was on hand to capture South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade using breeches buoy to rescue the captain and the 22-man crew.
A ship grounded on a Tyneside beach in 1963 - and the same location today; It's all quiet today on the beach at South Shields - in 1963 this ship was blown aground by strong winds
At 4.55pm he sent an order calling for the lifesaving equipment - rocket propelled lines and a breeches buoy rope rescue device - to be sent to Sker Point.
The SS Samtampa disaster - 70 years on; The loss of the SS Samtampa and Edward, Prince of Wales lifeboat along with 47 men at Sker Point, near Porthcawl, on April 23, 1947, was the worst Welsh maritime disaster of modern times. As the 70th anniversary approaches, Abby Bolter looks at what caused the tragedy
The breeches buoy lifesaving apparatus will be demonstrated today in the Pier Head car park, South Shields, which is the site of the former Pier Works yard where the first drill took place in 1866.
Lifesaving unit re-enacts first drill - 150 years on
They carried their equipment with them, which ranged from a "surfboat"--weighing up to 1,000 pounds--to an ingenious device called a "breeches buoy" to an enclosed lifeboat known as a "lifecar."
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Crews will demonstrate the 'Breeches Buoy' rescue technique that saved 40 of the Royal Charter's crew at 2.30pm.
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Instead the City Fire Brigade rigged a breeches buoy to the ship, but additional manpower was needed to man the lines.
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They drilled daily to hone their skills at firing lines (which would be shot to stricken ships), practicing retrieving "victims" with the breeches buoy (a sort of life-ring with shorts in which a person would sit and be pulled to shore along a line attached to the ship), handling their surfboats, and quickly preparing and moving their equipment in a heavy, wide-wheeled wagon known as the apparatus cart.
The heroes of Cape Hatteras: unrecognized for 100 years, the courageous efforts of an African-American lifesaving crew are finally being honored
During a visit to Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the summer of 1883, Homer witnessed the use of a new life-saving device (called a "breeches buoy") designed to save people from shipwrecks.
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January 20, 1963: South Shields' Volunteer Life Brigade battled to save the captain and the 22-man crew of the Lebanese steamer Adelfotis II by using breeches buoy. The ship had been blown aground next to the Groyne lighthouse in South Shields by gale force winds.
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Lifesavers recreated the first time a breeches buoy was used in a shipwreck rescue 150 years ago.
South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade re-enact breeches buoy rescue 150 years on; Brigade recreate the first time breeches buoy was used to rescue seven people from the Tendterden of Sunderland in 1866
On Saturday, April 2 there will be a re-enactment of the first time the breeches buoy was used to save life from a shipwreck.
Tragedy led to creation of sea heroes group
Four men, the crew of two tugs that were towing the steamship SS Herefordshire from Dartmouth to a breaker's yard in Scotland, were brought to shore one by one in the canvas bucket of a breeches buoy after scrambling onto the island when the ship hit the rocks.
Smugglers' island now a deserted haven for gulls; In the second of our occasional series celebrating Wales' islands, Country and Farming Editor STEVE DUBE focuses on Cardigan Island, a favoured destination of 18th century smugglers
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