For Those In Peril (1927)

Item title reads: “For Those In Peril…Coast Guard Airmen show new way to convey life-line to ship in distress, for quick assembling of Breeches buoy.“ Cape May M/S of an airman fixing a wire feed mechanism onto a plane. M/S of the seaplane in the water, and as it taxis away. Air to sea shot of the ship aground just off shore. The plane drops the wire. M/S of the ship with the wire stretching to shore. A man is hauled ashore from the ship carried on the Breeches buoy. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from