Tide Tables for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Tides |
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12 give 12h is noon 1st quar 3d quar add the tabular Admiralty Charts afternoon p. m. approximately the datum Brest Cape Town Coast and Geodetic comparison of consecutive consecutive heights datum of soundings depth of water diminished by 12 diurnal equator feet and tenths feet below mean find the depth forenoon a. m. full moon Geodetic Survey Charts Greenwich Mean Harbor Height of High heights will indicate High and Low high or low hours less Island Key West less than 12 line and heights Low Water Springs Lower Low Water lunitidal intervals Mean Local Civil Mean Low Water mean sea level moon farthest north north or south Number Oh is midnight Old Point Comfort order of occurrence Point Comfort 91 Port Townsend reckoned from Mean Sandy Hook second line Sitka soundings given subtract tabular height tides are placed unless a minus Valparaiso Wilhelmshaven Willets Point
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Page 44 - ... minutes for the first hour, and as often thereafter as may seem expedient. Later manifestations: After reaction is fully established there is great danger of congestion of the lungs, and if perfect rest is not maintained for at least forty-eight hours it sometimes occurs that the patient is seized with great difficulty of breathing, and death is liable to follow unless immediate relief is afforded. In such cases apply a large mustard plaster over the breast. If the patient gasps for breath before...
Page 44 - If natural breathing be not restored after a trial of the bellows movement for the space of three or four minutes, then turn the patient a second time on the stomach, as directed in Rule II. rolling the body in the opposite direction from that in which it was first turned, for the purpose of freeing the air passages from any remaining water.
Page 44 - Externally: As soon as breathing Is established let the patient be stripped of all wet clothing, wrapped in blankets only, put to bed comfortably warm, but with a free circulation of fresh air, and left to perfect rest. Internally: Give...
Page 40 - The tailblock should be hauled on board as quickly as possible to prevent the whip drifting off with the set or fouling with wreckage, etc. Therefore if you have been driven into the rigging, where but one or two men can work to advantage, cut the shot line, and run it through some available block, such as the throat or peak...
Page 41 - ... and you will be hauled ashore through the surf. If your vessel is stranded during the night and discovered by the patrolman — which you will know by his burning a brilliant red light — keep a sharp lookout for signs of the arrival of the life-saving crew abreast of your vessel.
Page 42 - Any of these signals may be answered from the vessel as follows : In the day-time, by waving a flag, a handkerchief, a hat, or even the hand ; at night, by firing a rocket, a blue light, or a gun, or by showing a light over the ship's gunwale for a short time and then concealing it.
Page 42 - Two flags, a white and a red, waved at the same time on shore by day, or two lights, a white and a red, slowly swung at the same time, or a blue pyrotechnic light burned by night, will signify "Do not attempt to land in your own boats ; it is impossible.
Page 39 - Destitute seafarers are provided with food and lodging at the nearest station by the government as long as necessarily detained by the circumstances of shipwreck.
Page 40 - If circumstances will admit, you can assist the life-saving crew by manning that part of the whip to which the hawser is bent and hauling with them.
Page 39 - All life-saving and lifel>oat stations are fully supplied with boats, wreck guns, beach apparatus, restoratives, etc. Houses of refuge are supplied with boats, provisions, and restoratives, but not manned by crews; a keeper, however, resides in each throughout the year, who, after every storm, is required to make extended excursions along the coast, with a view of ascertaining if any shipwreck has occurred and finding and succoring any persons that may have been cast ashore. Houses of refuge are...