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Joe Foley wrote:
>> It seems that the British DD crews were issued with,
>> and trained in the use
>> of, submarine escape apparatus, in case of problems.
>++++++++
>Hi Ron,
>
>Do you know what that consisted of?
Probably the standard admiralty pattern submarine escape apparatus, as
supplied by mmssrr Siebe Gorman, who are better known for the lead-foot
diving equipment theymade and supplied to the admiralty for over a century.
IIRC from their catalogue, it was a close-circuit breathing apparatus, with
a small bottle of oxygene and a soda/potash filter to trap carbon dioxide.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, under a thunderstorm on the sodden banks of the Paraguay
River.
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