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(2009)

Old Harbor Life-Saving Station Museum Breeches Buoy Tower.

An interpretive staff demonstrates the breeches buoy apparatus, a gun-launched lifeline that was used to pluck sailors individually off foundering vessels under conditions too rough even for the surfboats.

¶ Last updated on 10 January 2010.

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