The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918). [1] Supplied mainly to warships, it saw widespread use in a number of navies during peacetime and both World Wars until superseded by more modern rigid or inflatable designs.

The Carley life-float (Admiralty Seamanship Manual 1956 terminology) was the principal method of lifesaving equipment during WW2, fitted to all warships, and not superseded by the present form of inflatable life rafts until the mid 1950s.

2011年4月25日 · Blazing sun, a pitching sea, and hungry sharks—and that was just the start of their troubles. Bombardier Tony Pastula, pilot Harold Dixon, and radioman Gene Aldrich (left to right), survived 34...

Volume 1 in this series focuses on flotation devices carried in aircraft and worn by pilots and aircrew members, including life preservers and life rafts (multi-place and one-man types) and their accessories, as well as airborne lifeboats.

2015年7月2日 · Maintain a continuous watch aboard lifeboat, raft, or float. This duty is similar to sentry duty. The man on watch (sentry) looks for rescue parties, steers the boat to prevent its capsizing, maintains designated course or changes it as necessary, and informs the boat commander of all that has occurred during that watch.

He describes his type of raft and why the few survivors’ feet were in such a state. A Carley raft was an oval cylinder of metal construction about 18 feet long by 10 feet wide and about 18 inches in diameter. The body of the raft was covered with a thick layer of cork and then covered overall with heavy duty canvas.

2014年1月6日 · As stated here at airvectors.net, early F4F Wildcat variants featured a life raft in the aft fuselage behind the pilot, which was discontinued in later production. Does anyone here know at what point in F4F/FM/Martlet production the …

In January 1942, the crew of a TBD Devastator torpedo bomber, flown by Aviation Chief Machinist’s Mate Harold Dixon, became lost while on patrol from the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6) Operating under strict radio silence, lest the position of the ship be compromised, those in the aircraft realized that the end of their fuel supply meant ban...

2010年7月17日 · I found a WWII pic of a couple stacked on a ship and read an excerpt from a story of a PT boat shipwreck survivor who spoke of "clinging to that balsa life raft". If anyone has a picture of one being used by shipwreck survivors I would really like to see it.