Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving ServiceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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ality of vessel Am.sc ashore assistance Baileys Harbor Beach Boston breeches buoy Cape Cape Henlopen Capsized cargo casualty and service Catboat City Point coast danger District drifted ending June 30 Erie exceeding Fell overboard floated gale Harbor hauled hawser Inlet Jersey July June 30 Keeper Lake Huron Lake Michigan launch life-saving crew Life-Saving Service Life-Saving Station Mass Massachusetts master miles south Name and nation Nature of casualty Ocean City Ohio one-half miles Partial loss pier Plum Island Recovery of body Reef Rescue from drowning River sail schooner Sept service rendered Services of crews-Continued Shoal shore signal Skiff sloop South Haven south of station Station and locality Station crew steamer stranded Sturgeon Bay succored surf surfboat Surfmen boarded Surfmen pulled Surfmen took tion tons Total loss towed west of station Women's National Relief wreck yawl York
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Page 291 - For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and life-boat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for...
Page 317 - If natural breathing be not restored after a trial of the bellows movement for the space of about 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 passage from any remaining water.
Page 300 - Upon the boat reaching your vessel, the directions and orders of the keeper (who always commands and steers the boat) should be implicitly obeyed. Any headlong rushing and crowding should be prevented, and the captain of the vessel should remain on board, to preserve order, until every other person has left. Women, children, helpless persons, and passengers should be passed into the boat first.
Page 301 - This 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...
Page 318 - To produce Respiration. — If no assistance is at hand and one person must work alone, place the patient on his back with the shoulders slightly raised on a folded article of clothing; draw forward the tongue and keep it projecting just beyond the lips; if the lower jaw be lifted the teeth may be made to hold the tongue in place. It may be necessary to retain the tongue by passing a handkerchief under the chin and tying it over the head. Grasp the arms just below the elbows and draw them steadily...
Page 303 - Take particular care that there are no turns of the whip line round the hawser before making the hawser fast. Send the women, children, helpless persons, and passengers ashore first. Make yourself thoroughly familiar with these instructions and remember that on your coolness and strict attention to them will greatly depend the chances of success in bringing you and your people safely to land.
Page 316 - While this is being done let a third assistant take position astride the patient's hips with his elbows resting upon his own knees, his hands extended ready for action. Next, let the assistant standing at the head turn down the patient's arms to the sides of the body, the assistant holding the tongue, changing hands if necessary, to let the arms pass.
Page 316 - SERVICE. the teeth a cork or small bit of wood; turn the patient on his face, a large bundle of tightly rolled clothing being placed beneath the stomach; press heavily on the back over it for half a minute, or as long as fluids flow freely from the mouth.
Page 302 - These instructions being obeyed, the result will be as shown in figure 2. Take particular care that there are no turns of the whip line round the hawser. To prevent this take the end of the hawser up between the parts of the whip before making it fast. When the hawser is made fast, the whip cast off from the hawser, and your signal seen by the life-saving crew, they will haul the hawser taut and by means of the whip will haul off to your vessel a breeches buoy suspended from a traveler block, or...
Page 318 - 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 the mustard takes effect assist the breathing by carefully repeating the artificial respiration.