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Life rafts
Posted by: Theo Horsten ()
Date: June 26, 2003 12:53PM

<HTML>In the article on Heinz Eck and the "Peleus" it says that the floats of the rafts he was trying to sink, "were filled with boyant material".
Can somebody tell me what kind of material this was? Nowadays it would be some kind of synthetic foam, but what could it have been in 1943?

What kind of equipment did the liferafts have? Food and water, pyrotechnics? A mast and sail, paddles?
I can't find a list of lifeboat equipment and such on the net. Equipment in WW2, of course.</HTML>

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Life rafts Theo Horsten 06/26/2003 12:53PM
Re: Life rafts Ken Dunn 06/26/2003 02:22PM
Re: Life rafts Helmut Lepper 06/26/2003 05:18PM
Re: Life rafts Antonio Veiga 06/26/2003 06:34PM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 06/26/2003 07:50PM
Re: Life rafts ROBERT M. 06/27/2003 12:04AM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 06/27/2003 03:21AM
Re: Life rafts Alan Shard 06/30/2003 05:17PM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 06/30/2003 06:13PM
Re: Life rafts Alan Shard 07/01/2003 01:06AM
Re: Life rafts Steve Roberts 07/01/2003 09:35AM
Re: Life rafts Alex Caron 07/01/2003 02:59PM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 07/01/2003 10:21AM
Re: Life rafts Alan Shard 07/02/2003 02:49AM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 07/02/2003 06:03AM
Re: Life rafts Ken Dunn 07/01/2003 01:09PM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 07/02/2003 02:37AM
Re: Life rafts Alan Shard 07/02/2003 02:38AM
Re: Life rafts Steve Roberts 07/02/2003 09:27AM
Re: Life rafts Ken Dunn 07/02/2003 09:35AM
Re: Life rafts Ken Dunn 07/02/2003 09:27AM
Re: Life rafts Theo Horsten 07/02/2003 11:29AM
Re: Life rafts Howard Cock 07/01/2003 10:12PM
Re: Life rafts Steve Roberts 07/03/2003 09:34AM
Re: Life rafts George Converse 03/02/2017 05:14AM


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