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    The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918). Supplied mainly to...
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    closer inspection from a pilot boat found it was a Carley float with a dead person inside. The float was then towed ashore. With the island at risk of...
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  • Carley may refer to: Carley (name) Carley float, a lifeboat design Carley Hill, in North East England, United Kingdom Carley State Park, in Minnesota,...
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    later found to be false) and a damaged Carley float discovered by HMAS Heros on 28 November. A second Carley float was discovered off Christmas Island on...
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    survivors from Kormoran's 399 personnel were found, but apart from a carley float and a lifebelt, nothing from Sydney or the 645 aboard was recovered....
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    beacon Breeches buoy – Rescue device for transport along a taut rope Carley float – Liferaft design Controlled Impact Rescue Tool – Concrete breaching...
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    favorable winds on the return journey. Transport portal Airborne lifeboat Carley float Equipment of the United States Coast Guard Escape pod Lifeboat ethics...
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    the subsequent days. As a result, only one was still alive when their carley float was picked up five days later by the Italian torpedo boat Generale Achille...
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  • ran his full speed of 40 knots (74 km/h). Wynn spotted two men on a Carley float directly ahead of him. He had to make a snap decision, either to stop—which...
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    only confirmed remains found were a damaged carley float and a lifebelt. In February 1942, a carley float carrying a then-unidentifiable body reached...
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    order "abandon ship" and eight men got away on a Carley float. The German ships fired on the Carley float and a motor boat carrying survivors of Strongbow...
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    ship at 36° 30'N, 16° 07'E and after York sank the ship with gunfire, Carley floats were dropped near the survivors. Cunningham sent a signal in clear giving...
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  • looking after and put him in a Carley float. Wryneck capsized to port but managed to launch her whaler and three Carley floats before she sank in 10–15 minutes...
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    destroyer launched her three Carley floats. Survivors in the whaler set off east past Cape Maleas, towing two Carley floats and their occupants. In the...
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    Erin Elizabeth McCarley (born January 8, 1979) is an alternative music singer-songwriter. McCarley attended college at Baylor University, and is now based...
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    explosion she sank by her bow. Of more than 600 men, only 12 on two Carley floats reached the shore. 600 Navy 1914  Russia Pallada – On 11 October Pallada...
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    (Lawrence Andrew Rogers RN) and three ratings were picked up from a Carley float by the destroyer Inglefield and landed at Scapa Flow on 20 February....
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  • supply-laden Carley floats to reach the shore party, but the strong current swept them away. She moved closer to the shore, launched her remaining floats and returned...
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    passengers aboard, only 12 crew survived after coming ashore on three Carley floats. A total of 737 were lost, including Kitchener and all the members of...
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  • Commander Thomas Agassiz, RNR. Another 17 men from Conqueror II survived in Carley floats, and at 04:00 hrs the next morning the destroyer HMS Sylvia rescued...
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    and three sailors from Kingston Agate reached the submarine using a Carley float (a liferaft). After a quick search failed to find the U-boat's Enigma...
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    material, fittings etc. Motor Boat badly damaged. Both whalers and 3 Carley Floats lost") while she rode out the storm offshore, was instructed at 16:10...
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    destroyer launched her three Carley floats. Survivors in the whaler set off east past Cape Maleas, towing two Carley floats and their occupants. In the...
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    launched her whaler and each destroyer launched her three Carley floats. Several men in the Carley floats died either from wounds or from drowning in the swell...
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    up the vacated "A" turret. Liverpool's crew prepared the cruiser's Carley floats and other small craft while warships, including  ?, began to arrive...
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    Flow in poor shape, battered by North Atlantic storms. Many of her Carley Floats had been smashed and several of the smaller-calibre guns rendered inoperable...
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    ordered "abandon ship" and eight men got away on a Carley float. The German ships fired on the float and a motor boat with survivors from Strongbow. Five...
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    established at the entrance of Broken Bay. A target consisting of a carley float was towed into position and anchored when required for the exercises...
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  • troop ship had sunk too quickly to launch any lifeboats, but her Carley floats floated free and some survivors were able to board them. After three patterned...
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    material, fittings etc. Motor Boat badly damaged. Both whalers and 3 Carley Floats lost") while she rode out the storm offshore, was instructed at 16:10...
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