Organization and Methods of the United States Life-saving ServiceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 39 sivua |
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active season afford annum ashore assistant inspector beach apparatus boat room boats and apparatus breeches-buoy Cape Charles Cape Fear Cape Hatteras Cape Henlopen Cape Henry capsized cargoes coast line craft Cunningham rocket day watch distance district superintendent drill duties equipped favorable feet fired furnished harbors hauling houses of refuge Hunt projectile imperiled inches Jersey coast keeper Lake Michigan launched life-car Life-Saving Service lifeboat Long Island loss Louisville Lyle gun miles nearly night Number of days Number of disasters Number of persons number of vessels oars occasions of rescue officers Ohio River patrol persons lost persons on board piers portion practice present system property involved reason sand self-bailing boats self-righting and self-bailing self-righting boat shipwrecked shore shot-line signals stations are located storm stranded vessels succor supplied surf surfboat surfmen thorax tions UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING usually Value of property volunteer system wreck pole wreckers
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Sivu 10 - Service, attended with loss of life, the general superintendent shall cause an investigation of all the circumstances connected with said disaster and loss of life to be made, with a view of ascertaining the cause of the disaster, and whether any of the officers or employees of the service have been guilty » of neglect or misconduct in the premises...
Sivu 26 - ... For a vehicle in which to transport people from a wreck to shore after line communication has been established, the breeches buoy is generally used. The life car is sometimes taken, however, especially where many persons are to be landed and where the distance is too great to use the breeches buoy. The car is a covered boat, made of corrugated galvanized iron, furnished with rings at each end, into which hauling lines are bent, whereby the car is hauled back and forth on the water between the...
Sivu 25 - In the saiue storm the crew of the Lewes Station, Delaware, fired the gun from the upper window of a fish-house and landed the crew of a vessel into the loft with the breeches-buoy.
Sivu 13 - The number of men composing the crew of a station is determined by the number of oars required to pull the largest boat belonging to it. There .are some five-oared boats in the Atlantic stations, but at all of them there is at least one of six oars. Six men, therefore, make up the regular crews of these stations, but a seventh man is added on the 1st of December, so that during the most rigorous portion of the season a man may be left ashore to assist in the launching and beaching of the boat and...
Sivu 13 - In the absence of strong counteracting inducements these considerations would naturally lead to the choice of the very best men to be had. It was early found, however, that political, social, and family influences were often strong enough to so control the selection as to materially affect the efficiency of a crew. To oppose them certain regulations were established, the most important of which provided that the selection of keepers and crews should be made solely with reference to their fitness...
Sivu 26 - ... sometimes the case where the shore is abrupt. The cover of the boat is convex, and is provided with a hatch, which fastens either inside or outside, through which entrance and exit are effected. Near each end it is perforated with a group of small holes, like the holes in a grater, punched outward, to supply air for breathing, without admitting much, if any, water. It is capable of containing six or seven persons, and is very useful in landing sick people and valuables, as they are protected...
Sivu 17 - If in one month after the opening of the " active season " a crew can not accomplish the rescue within five minutes, it is considered that they have been remiss in drilling or that there are some stupid men among them.
Sivu 5 - ... steamers cut their way across Lake Michigan at intervals throughout the winter. There are few natural harbors, but a large number of artificial ones. These are formed at the mouths of rivers by extending piers from their banks out into the lake for a considerable distance and dredging the bottom between. The Lakes are generally tranquil, but at certain seasons are visited by violent gales which throw their fresh waters into furious convulsion with a suddenness unknown upon the ocean.
Sivu 7 - ... housekeeping by the crew and for the succor of rescued people, fuel and oil, tools for the repair of the boats and apparatus and for minor repairs to the buildings, and the necessary books and stationery. At some of the stations the Hunt gun and projectiles are supplied, and at a few the Cunningham rocket apparatus. To facilitate the transportation of boats and apparatus to scenes of shipwreck a pair of horses is also provided at stations where they can not be hired, and to those stations where...
Sivu 6 - The stations upon the ocean beaches are generally situated among the low sand hills common to such localities sufficiently back of highwater mark to be safe from the reach of storm tides. They are plain structures, designed to serve as barracks for the crews and to afford convenient storage for the boats and apparatus. Most of those upon the Long Island and New Jersey coasts have been enlarged from the boathouses put up to shelter the boats and equipments provided for the use of volunteers before...