Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 |
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afloat afternoon anchor arrived ashore assistance Ballast Beach Station boat bound breakers Cape Henlopen captain cargo casualties Chesapeake Bay Chicago Cleveland coast Coston signal Cranberry Island damage danger December drifted Eleventh District ending June 30 exceeding Fell overboard Fifth District Forge River Fourth District gale half-past Harbor hauled hawser heavy sea Inlet Island Station Jersey Jonesport July June 30 keeper Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Ledge life-saving crew Life-Saving Service Long Island Long Island Sound lookout Mass Massachusetts miles north miles south morning north patrol northeast November Number Number of persons Number of vessels October Ohio Partial loss pier Point Port reached Reef rescued returns of disasters Rock safely sails Saint Sandy Hook saved schooner Second District Shoal shore skiff sloop soon station-crew steamer stranded struck surf surf-boat surfmen tide Total loss towed Virginia wind wreck York