Every man should try to be as alert and well prepared for helping and
saving men as the steamers here described:
All Pacific mail-steamers are carefully protected by a rigid
practise in fire and life-saving drills. At the tap of the bell,
the crew spring to their places by boat and raft; each officer,
with a pistol hung by his side, takes his station; and the
precision and quickness with which it is all accompanied inspire
the beholder with very comfortable feelings.
The life-drill is practised in case some one should fall
overboard. Certain members of the crew are assigned to this
duty, ready at any moment to throw out life-lines, buoys
that strike a light when they hit the water, or man the
emergency lifeboat that is kept in position to be lowered
instantly.--MARSHALL P. WILDER, “Smiling ’Round the
World.”
(1811)
See KNOWLEDGE APPLIED.
=Life-saving Attachment=--See ECONOMY OF ENERGY.