Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1898
The surfboat was used 812 times, making trips. The self-right ing and self-bailing lifeboat was used 114 times, making 129 trips. The gasoline launch at the City Point Station (second District) was used 83 times, making 86 trips. Smaller boats were used 460 times, making 567 trips. The river life skiffs at the Louisville Station (ninth District) were used 27 times, making 29 trips. The breeches buoy was used 10 times, making 107 trips. The life car was used once, making 3 trips. The wreck gun was employed 15 times, firing 37 shots. The heaving stick was used 35 times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
