Lifeboatman's helmet

A lifeboatman's helmet is designed to protect the heads of lifeboatmen at their work in rough sea.

The sort described here is currently (7 September 2008) in use at Southport lifeboat station in England.

View of the helmet

View inside the helmet

It covers the same area as a motorcycle helmet including all of the ears, Its casing is thinner, and nearer to the size of the head, and has lengthwise ridges.

It has a transparent visor to keep sea spray out of the eyes. It has a chinstrap.

Its lining is not padded but inflatable; it has an inflation tube (fastened to the chinstrap) ending in a red nipple (at the bottom of the first image) to inflate the lining by mouth to fit it firmly on the head.

It has a microphone and an intercom lead.

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Ancient	Attic Boar's tusk Boeotian Chalcidian Coolus Corinthian Galea Illyrian type Imperial Kegelhelm Konos Late Roman ridge Montefortino Negau Phrygian Shmarjet

Medieval and Early Modern	Armet Aventail Barbute Bascinet Burgonet Cervelliere Close Enclosed Falling buffe Frog-mouth Great Hounskull Kabuto Kettle Lobster-tailed pot Mempo Morion Nasal Pickelhaube Sallet Secrete Spangenhelm

1914 to 1945	Adrian Brodie Bulgarian M36 Danish M1923 German Stahlhelm Greek M1934/39 M42 Duperite M1 Mk III Portuguese M1940 Polish wz. 31 RAC Soviet of WWII Swiss L'Eplattenier

Post 1945	Advanced Combat CABAL II CCB CG634 Enhanced Combat (Aust) Enhanced Combat (US) Flight GOLFO Head Gear System HSAT Iraqi M80 Iraqi M90 JK 96 Lightweight Mº 44 E.T.A. M63 M76 Para M87 M1C Mk 6 Mk 7 Modèle 1951 Modèle 1978 Modular Integrated Communications MPC-1 OR-201 Paratrooper PASGT Sfera SPECTRA SSh-60 SSh-68 Type 66

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