Trouser buoy
The trouser buoy enables people to be rescued via a line connection between two ships or between a coast and a ship.
construction
The trouser buoy consists of a lifebuoy with sewn trousers. It is driven back and forth on a rope like a suspension railway.
Rescue operation
With a cannon ( Manby mortar, Lyle gun ) or a small rocket (" rocket apparatus ") a thin rope is first shot to the damaged ship. Then the crew of the damaged vessel pulls a dinghy rope to the ship and attaches it as high as possible. With the help of the dinghy rope, the rescue team now pulls the actual rescue rope to the ship. This is made there above the block of the dinghy rope. Now the trouser buoy is used in shuttle traffic between the land and the damaged vessel. It slides on the lifeline and is moved by the dinghy rope. The lifebuoy of the trouser buoy prevents the castaways from submerging in stormy seas. Only one person can be retrieved at a time.
Between 1865 and 1915 alone, the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People had rescued over 600 people with trouser buoys.
development
In 1868 Germany succeeded for the first time in increasing the range of the missiles used to up to 500 m. The trouser buoy is still in use today.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Lyle and his Life Saving Gun on nps.gov
- ↑ Thomas Joerdens: With the trouser buoy on land in Märkische Oderzeitung Journal 13./14. March 2010, p. 2