If the helicopter had been unable to lift off the three men, a breeches buoy was the only very risky possible alternative.
During the five-year period, 1983–1987 inclusive, throughout the coastguard service, rescue was effected by breeches buoy equipment on two occasions.
The requirement to rescue stranded mariners by breeches buoy has been replaced by the greater availability of all-weather helicopters and fast lifeboats.
Usta et al119 compared the outcome of 297 deliveries of known breech pregnancies with 356 previously undiagnosed breeches, and found no significant difference in perinatal outcome.
Perhaps we (who work on gender and colonialism) are getting too big for our breeches and our punishment has been to be cast out of the well-established guilds of historians.
Though the viewer sees the surface of the skirt, she knows that the tightly-fitting, masculine breeches are lurking beneath this proper façade.
A lodger who worked for a sugar refiner had stolen from his room a cloth coat, a satin waistcoat, worsted stockings and leather breeches.
However practical they might be, a woman had to conceal her breeches until the second decade of the twentieth century.
