| United States. Life-Saving Service - 1881 - 472 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf-boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach will indicate their arrival, and the sound of cannon-firing from the shore may be taken as evidence that a line has been fired across your vessel.... | |
| United States. Life-Saving Service - 1883 - 566 pages
...Lights on the beach will indicate their arrival, and the sound of cannon-firing from the shore maybe taken as evidence that a line has been fired across...hearing the cannon, make strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot-line, for it is almost cer,aiu to be there. Though the movements of the life-saving... | |
| Howard Patterson - Navigation - 1887 - 474 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf-boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach will indicate their arrival, and the sound of cannonfiring from the shore may be taken as evidence that a line has been fired across your vessel.... | |
| Stephen Bleecker Luce - Navigation - 1898 - 852 pages
...patrolman may have to return to his station, perhaps three or four miles distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surfboat through the sand...hearing the cannon, make strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot line, for it is almost certain to be there. Though the movements of the life-saving... | |
| International Correspondence Schools - Marine meteorology - 1902 - 600 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach...line has been fired across your vessel. Therefore, on hearing the cannon, make strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot line, for it is almost... | |
| Coastwise navigation - 1902 - 650 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach...line has been fired across your vessel. Therefore, on hearing the cannon, make a strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot line, for it is almost... | |
| International Correspondence Schools - Arithmetic - 1902 - 380 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach...line has been fired across your vessel. Therefore, on hearing the cannon, make a strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot line, for it is almost... | |
| Tides - 1902 - 516 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf boat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach...sound of cannon firing from the shore may be taken ae evidence that a line has been tired across your vessel. Therefore, upon hearing the cannon, make... | |
| Tides - 1903 - 526 pages
...distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or Hitrfboat through the sand or over bad roads to where your vessel is stranded. Lights on the beach...and the sound of cannon firing from the shore may l>e taken as evidence that a line has been fired across your vessel. Therefore, upon hearing the cannon,... | |
| United States. Life-Saving Service - 1904 - 488 pages
...station, perhaps three or four miles distant, and the life-saving crew draw the apparatus or surf boat through the sand or over bad roads to the place where...hearing the cannon, make strict search aloft, fore and aft, for the shot line, for it is almost certain to be there. Though the movements of the life-saving... | |
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