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...popularize the sport throughout Britain; of a heart attack; in Worcestershire, England. A salty, pub-loving sailor and longtime racing companion of Prince Philip's, Fox designed dozens of craft ranging in size from dinghies to 37-ft. planers. His most important innovation: a self-righting, self-bailing lifeboat that during World War II was parachuted to airmen downed...
...gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled any in the Apollo series...
...American freighter Observer, isolated farther upstream. The British ships were abandoned last year after London underwriters paid out a total of $24 million in claims. The skeleton crews who remain aboard the other trapped ships pass three-month hitches in stupefying heat and boredom, which they combat with lifeboat races, movies and an unending supply of beer. All 15 ships are in reasonably good condition and could either sail or be towed...
Romantic Past. What he found was "less like a small town than a large lifeboat," 17 sq. mi. of moor, mountain and rock supporting 138 people, where a purely feudal society had precariously survived the advent of the welfare state. Utterly interlaced through confinement and bloodlines, the islanders were leading lives somehow larger than life, gossiping about each other ("When Donald Garvard's got a bucket in him, he can be a pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls...
...cells, he ordered valves closed, switches turned off, and countless other emergency procedures. When it became all too clear that Odyssey would have to be evacuated, he made sure to check the lunar module's own critical functions-guidance, oxygen, power-before directing the astronauts to begin their "lifeboat mode" inside Aquarius...