breeches buoy

Besides, a breeches buoy is only one of our options.

Using a Breeches buoy, eight more of the crew were rescued.

Like a breeches buoy, if you know what that is?"

This was an early form of the breeches buoy.

A breeches buoy was then sent out but became tangled and snarled.

Eight of the twenty crew were rescued by helicopter or breeches buoy.

The work of installing the breeches buoy began.

The wind seemed somewhat abated, and finally the first mate decided that the breeches buoy was ready.

In the interim the beach cart had arrived and it was decided to try the breeches buoy to effect a rescue.

"I somehow don't see Brooks at his athletic best in a breeches buoy on a day like this.

The lifeboatmen hauled a dozen crewmen to safety with a breeches buoy.

The competition simulates an actual breeches buoy rescue situation.

"Besides, breeches buoys aren't made to accommodate the likes of our venerable chief surgeon."

Despite their best effort to use the breeches buoy to rescue those on the vessels, the lines became tangled and could not be untangled.

At dawn the next morning, the rescue effort was resumed with the use of the breeches buoy from Cullercoats.

The crew of 11 were safely taken off with the assistance of local islanders using a breeches buoy fired by rocket.

"But a breeches buoy," Harry said doubtfully.

Rockets were used to propel a line to a stricken ship so that a Breeches buoy can be used to rescue those on board.

A breeches buoy line is then shot from a helicopter and rigged to the adjacent World Trade Center north tower.

After the eleventh crew man was rescued using the breeches buoy the stricken steamer rolled over and settled down under the sea.

The Breeches Buoy is a life-ring with "britches" sewn onto the ring.

"It's carrying motorized rafts, for God's sake, and the equipment to rig a breeches buoy to point on land.

The life boats were all sunk by the heavy seas and the lives of the crew saved by being pulled ashore in a breeches buoy.

As the breeches buoy was connected to the stricken trawler she lurched and rolled onto her side, jamming all the gear.

The ship would rendezvous with the combatant vessels and take on casualties by breeches buoy both at night and under battle conditions.