LIFE SAVING APPARATUS FOR VESSELS

摘要

A life saving buoy of the type intended to float off the deck of a sinking vessel and to remain anchored to the vessel by an anchoring cable, to provide a mooring for life boats or life rafts and to give signals to aid resecuers; having improved structural features particularly in relation to the casing which carries the anchoring cable reel. The cable reel flanges are buried in the sides of the casing, with the gap between the flanges and casing being too small for cable to become snagged therein. The reel casing is also made readily removable for servicing. The reel compartment is closed by a bottom plate having an aperture which serves as a guide for the cable.