Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #108

Here the men of the Jenness Beach Lifesaving Station in Rye demonstrate their new "breeches buoy". The Lyle gun firing here could shoot a line hundreds of feet to the crew of a foundering vessel. Victorian lifesavers also used a piece of equipment we still use today -- the surfboard. 

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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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SEE ALSO Rye Lifessaving Station

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