Organization and Methods of the United States Life-Saving Service

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - 33 sivua

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Sivu 5 - For providing surf boat, rockets, carronades, and other necessary apparatus for the better preservation of life and property from shipwrecks on the coast of New Jersey...
Sivu 26 - ... the shore without the use of any apparatus. It is supplied, however, with bails, one near each end, by which it can be suspended from a hawser and passed along upon it like the breeches buoy if found necessary, as is 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,...
Sivu 16 - This serves the double purpose of warning the people on the vessel of their danger and of assuring them of succor if they are already in distress. For every week-day a regular routine of duties is appointed. For Monday, it is drill and practice with the beach-apparatus and overhauling and examining the boats and all apparatus and gear ; for Tuesday, practice with the boats ; for Wednesday, practice with the international...
Sivu 6 - ... 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. Vessels unable to hold their own against the severity of these storms, being landlocked and with scant sea room, are likely to be left with only the choice between stranding wherever they may be driven and seeking refuge in the harbor that seems most accessible. The latter course is...
Sivu 15 - ... or by such re-arrangement from time to time as proficiency in drill and performance of duty may dictate. Whenever the keeper is absent, No. 1 assumes command and exercises his functions. The rank of his men being fixed, the keeper assigns to each his quarters and prepares station bills for the day watch, night patrol, boat and apparatus drill, care of the premises, etc. For the purpose of watch and patrol, the district officers establish patrol limits as far as practicable along the coast in...
Sivu 25 - 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 wreck and the shore without the use of any apparatus. It is supplied, however, with bails, one near each end, by which it can be suspended from a hawser and passed along upon it like the breeches buoy if found...
Sivu 15 - ... Great Lakes. This act also instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to adopt necessary measures for the custody of the boats. The need for protection of life-saving property and equipment had not been recognized in earlier acts, and a situation had developed which is best described in official words : There was no organization of any sort; no accounting to the Treasury for the property, or for anything that might happen or be done; no responsibility from anybody to anybody. There the buildings...
Sivu 17 - If in one month after the opening of tbe " 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 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...
Sivu 27 - Henlopeu in the great storm of September 10, 11, and 12 last, one of the most destructive that has ever visited our coast, when the crews of three stations, under the leadership of Captain Clampitt, of the Lewes Station, rescued the crews of 22 stranded vessels — 194 persons — by the use of every form of rescuing appliance; 23 being landed with the surfboats, 16 with the self-righting life-boat, 135 with the breeches-buoy, and 20 with the life-car — not a life being lost.

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