Flotation Collection

Throwing the Life-Line
A member of the lifeboat crew wearing a cork flotation jacket is about to throw out the life-line during a rescue

The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - South Africa
The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The company which was founded in 1887 by the German August Simmer and Scotsman John Jack

A Cierva C30A Rota 1 K4230
A Cierva C30A Rota 1, K4230, was modified by the Cierva company for deck landing operations (including fitment of Walter Kidde and RFD flotation gear)

The Bleriot XI showing its flotation cylinder
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A Fokker FVIIb-3m equipped with special flotation apparatus. This aircraft was used for the first service of the Pan American Airways System between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba

Curtiss JN3 8809 with skids and flotation gear
Curtiss JN3, 8809, with skids and flotation gear. 24 June 1918. Date: 1918

Hancocks Acquatic Dress - a basin-type device for walking across deep rivers. The rather opn design rathers opens the possibility for flooding

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

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