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  2. Cresswell Lifeboat Station - Wikipedia

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    A new lifeboat would be provided to Cresswell in 1889. Ellen and Eliza (ON 245), a 10-oar self-righting lifeboat, with two sails, and a water pump to remove water from the boat, arrived on 24 August 1889. Thomas Brown was still Coxswain, with no fewer than 8 other crew members with the surname Brown.

  3. Lifeboat (rescue) - Wikipedia

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    The first non-submersible ('unimmergible') lifeboat is credited to Lionel Lukin, an Englishman who, in 1784, modified and patented a 20-foot (6.1 m) Norwegian yawl, fitting it with water-tight cork-filled chambers for additional buoyancy and a cast iron keel to keep the boat upright.

  4. Submersible - Wikipedia

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    The first submersible to be used in war was designed and built by American inventor David Bushnell in 1775 as a means to attach explosive charges to enemy ships during the American Revolutionary War. The device, dubbed Bushnell's Turtle , was an oval-shaped vessel of wood and brass.

  5. Water slide - Wikipedia

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    Water slide at Toledo Beach, Michigan, 1911 Boy riding a water tube slide at The Colony Park in The Colony, Texas. A water slide (also referred to as a flume, water chute, or hydroslide) is a type of slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at swimming pools or water parks. Water slides differ in their riding method and ...

  6. Lionel Lukin - Wikipedia

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    The lifeboat was not the only invention to come from Lukin's fertile brain. Other ideas included a stove that could be used on a ship in rough seas, a rain gauge, an adjustable invalid's bed that was adopted in London hospitals, and a raft that could be used to rescue people who had fallen through ice.

  7. Davit - Wikipedia

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    The (enclosed) lifeboat is on a ramp and slides down and off of the ship when engaged. This is done by pumping a lever that is inside the lifeboat by the pilot. [ 9 ] If there is not enough hydraulic pressure to release the stop fall, a pump on the inside must be rotated to build up the hydraulic pressure to release the lifeboats stopfall hook.

  8. Missing Sub’s Pilot Has Surprising Connection to Actual ...

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    In another wild turn of events, one of the passengers aboard the missing Titanic submarine has a close connection to the famous shipwreck the vessel set out to visit.

  9. Henry Greathead - Wikipedia

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    Henry Francis Greathead (1757–1818) was an English pioneering rescue lifeboat builder from South Shields. [1] [2] Although Lionel Lukin had patented a lifeboat in 1785, [3] Greathead successfully petitioned parliament in 1802 with the claim that he had invented a lifeboat in 1790, and he was awarded £1,200 for his trouble. [4]