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Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumEquipment - Two pullies used on breeches buoys
... of rocket rescue. Lifeboat crew used this equipment for training ...Snap type pulley used to attach to a line spread between two points to transfer persons or goods. Used as part of rocket rescue.Lifeboat crew used this equipment for training in the use of rockets and breeches buoy rescue during the Lifeboat service between 1926 and 1976.Two brass pulleys surrounded with a brass housing which is hinged to allow a line to be attached.brass, pulley, rescue, rocket -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Rocket Launcher
... -and-the-bellarine-peninsula Used by Queenscliff Lifeboat crew up till 1970 ...Used by Queenscliff Lifeboat crew up till 1970.Rocket Launcher on Tripod. All metal painted greySchermuly Coastgaurd Engineers 70mm Line Throwing Rocket A Schermuly Product Made in England Lot 5 R 10 77rocket, rescue -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Flaked Line
... -and-the-bellarine-peninsula Used by Queenscliff lifeboat crew rescue ...Used by Queenscliff lifeboat crewFlaked line in blue wooden storage box.No1 LINE FOR PRACTICE USE ONLYrescue, lifeboat, rocket -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Bottle
Recovered from the wreck site of the Fiji. The barque Fiji left Hamburg on 22nd of May 1891. The vessel went ashore at 3 am on the morning of the 6th of September 1891in squally and boisterous weather soon after sighting Cape Otway. The wind had suddenly veered, and the vessel missed stays after attempting to wear ship and was driven onto the rocks. Attempts were made to launch the boats but they were swamped and dashed to pieces. Delays in getting the lifeboat and rocket apparatus to the scene resulted in 12 of the 25 crew drowning after 10 hours trapped on board. A local resident, Arthur Wilkinson, lost his life trying to save one of the crew who was struggling in the surf. Coffins were made out of the wreck timbers and the men buried on the cliff top above the wreck. The deaths precipitated critical comment in the press over the lack of prompt action. Other news items appeared claiming drunk and disorderly behaviour by plunderers amongst the corpses and wreckage on the beach. The controversy reached parliament.Brown bottleWarner's, Safe, Cure, Melbourne Aust, London Eng, Toronto Can, Rochester NY USAwrecks, salvage, bottle, barque fiji -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumContainer - Brass match container
These brass containers held strike anywhere matches used by the Lifeboat service to light fuses to launch rescue rockets. Example of a type of match and its container used by the lifeboat crews in training and rescue operations where a rescue rope rocket had to be launched.A brass container for matches with one Vesta match used for lighting fuse for rescue rope rocketmatches, strike anywhere matches, rescue equipment, rope rockets -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumPhotograph, Photographer unknown, c1920
... -and-the-bellarine-peninsula Lifeboat crew & rescue equipment Lifeboat Crew ...Lifeboat crew & rescue equipmentRealismBlack & white photograph of a Rescue rocket being firing from lifeboat & associated newspaper article.lifeboat, crew, rescue, rocket system -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumPhotograph, Photographer unknown, c1920
... -and-the-bellarine-peninsula Lifeboat crew & rescue equipment Lifeboat Crew ...Lifeboat crew & rescue equipmentRealismBlack & white photograph of the rescue rocket breeches buoy practice.lifeboat, crew, rescue, rocket system -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumPhotograph, Photographer unknown, c1920
... -and-the-bellarine-peninsula Lifeboat crew Crew rescue rocket .Reverse ...Lifeboat crewRealismBlack & white photograph of Rocket rescue practice with breeches buoy system at Queenscliffe wharf.Reverse: "Breeches buoy practice / 689/1071 c1920"crew, rescue, rocket
