1952
1971
1973
OUR
HISTORY
Federal Boat Safety Act
allows Stearns to invent
new styles of PFDs.
Introduction to industrial
vests and jackets.
B. Howard takes a forward
thinking offshoot of the
company and names it
Stearns. First boat cushions
come off the line.
Stearns creates the First
Type lll PFD.
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